Heron Definition

hĕrən
herons
noun
Any of various wading birds (esp. subfamily Ardeinae) with a long neck, long legs, and a long, tapered bill, living along marshes and river banks.
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A sepulchral monument in the form of a small temple.

In Ancient Greece, a monument to a dead hero, and now the relics they find are most well preserved at heroons, like vases or pots with references to the deeds of Herakles, or Calydon.
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Synonyms:
  • Hero of Alexandria
  • hero

Other Word Forms of Heron

Noun

Singular:
heron
Plural:
herons

Origin of Heron

  • From Middle English heroun, heiron, from Anglo-Norman heiron, from Old Dutch heigero (compare Middle Dutch heiger), from Proto-Germanic *haigrô (compare Swedish häger), dissimilation of *hraigrô (compare Old English hrāgra, Dutch reiger, German Reiher), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreik-, *(s)kreig- (“to screech, creak”) (compare Welsh crëyr (“heron”), Ancient Greek κρίζω (krízō, “to creak, screech”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin heroum from Ancient Greek ἡρῷον (hērōon), from ἡρῷος (hērōios, “of a hero”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Heron Sentence Examples

  • Wolves are numerous in the mountains; the heron, ibis, wild goose and snipe in the valley of the Wei.

  • The common bittern (Botaurus stellaris) is nearly as large as the heron, and is widely distributed over the eastern hemisphere.

  • The snowy heron is a rare plume bird seen occasionally along the coast.

  • In the garzeros of Venezuela are to be found nearly every kind of heron, crane, stork and ibis, together with an incredible number of Grallatores.

  • C. Taylor remarked (Ibis, 18 59, p. 51), that the buff-backed heron, Ardea bubulcus, was made by the tourists' dragomans to do duty for the "sacred ibis," and this seems to be no novel practice, since by it, or something like it, Hasselqvist was misled, and through him Linnaeus.

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