Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hero_of_alexandria

1 sense of hero of alexandria

Sense 1
Hero, Heron, Hero of Alexandria -- (Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century))
       INSTANCE OF=> mathematician -- (a person skilled in mathematics)
       INSTANCE OF=> inventor, discoverer, artificer -- (someone who is the first to think of or make something)