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Hector meaning
Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a braggart, bully.
Synonyms of Hector
Using Hector
- The main meaning on this page is: Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a braggart, bully.
- Useful related words include: mythical being, strong-arm, bully, browbeat.
- In the example corpus, hector often appears in combinations such as: hector bellerin, hector and, and hector.
Context around Hector
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 7 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 3 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hector
- In this selection, "hector" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, father, killed, dragged, fire, alvarez and holds stand out and add context to how "hector" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include achilles and hector over patroclus and achilles and hector the winner. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hector" sits close to words such as artisan, asymptomatic and bayley, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hector
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Billy Hector on Friday and Trouble Ahead on Saturday! (9 words)
Brooke Wood with a cauliflower and her two dogs Hector and Cedric. (12 words)
Asiatic Alvarez, left, stands with his father, Hector Alvarez, as Hector holds Asiatic’s then-newborn son, Josiah. (18 words)
Hector takes it off, embraces his wife and son, and for his sake prays aloud to Zeus that his son might be chief after him, become more glorious in battle than he, and to bring home the blood of his enemies and make Hector's wife, his mother, proud. (49 words)
Greek mythology Greatest warrior of Troy Hector Admonishes Paris for His Softness and Exhorts Him to Go to War by J.H.W. Tischbein (1751–1828) According to the Iliad, Hector did not approve of war between the Greeks and the Trojans. (42 words)
MG Hector Fire Offical statement released by company, here is the offical letter- बीच सड़क MG Hector में आग लगने की घटना पर कंपनी ने किया खुलासा! (33 words)
MG Hector Fire Offical statement released by company, here is the offical letter- बीच सड़क MG Hector में आग लगने की घटना पर कंपनी ने किया खुलासा! (33 words)
MG Hector SUV smart features revealed: inbuilt 5G sim, button-free voice assistant - MG Hector होगी देश की पहली 'इंटरनेट कार'! (26 words)
Billy Hector on Friday and Trouble Ahead on Saturday! (9 words)
Example sentences (20)
MG Hector Fire Offical statement released by company, here is the offical letter- बीच सड़क MG Hector में आग लगने की घटना पर कंपनी ने किया खुलासा!
Asiatic Alvarez, left, stands with his father, Hector Alvarez, as Hector holds Asiatic’s then-newborn son, Josiah.
MG Hector SUV smart features revealed: inbuilt 5G sim, button-free voice assistant - MG Hector होगी देश की पहली 'इंटरनेट कार'!
Achilles hurls his spear at Hector, who dodges it, but Athena brings it back to Achilles' hands without Hector noticing.
Achilles killed Hector, and afterwards he dragged Hector's body from his chariot and refused to return the body to the Trojans for burial.
Ajax gives Hector his girdle, which later was used to attach Hector's corpse to Achilles' chariot by which he is dragged around the walls of Troy.
During this time, he befriended Edmund Hector, nephew of his "man-midwife" George Hector, and John Taylor, with whom he remained in contact for the rest of his life.
Greek mythology Greatest warrior of Troy Hector Admonishes Paris for His Softness and Exhorts Him to Go to War by J.H.W. Tischbein (1751–1828) According to the Iliad, Hector did not approve of war between the Greeks and the Trojans.
Hector, in his final moments, begs Achilles for an honorable funeral, but Achilles replies that he will let the dogs and vultures devour Hector's flesh.
Hector takes it off, embraces his wife and son, and for his sake prays aloud to Zeus that his son might be chief after him, become more glorious in battle than he, and to bring home the blood of his enemies and make Hector's wife, his mother, proud.
The fight between Achilles and Memnon over Antilochus echoes that of Achilles and Hector over Patroclus, except that Memnon (unlike Hector) was also the son of a goddess.
Added analyst Hector Cristaldo: "Looking at the numbers, there is nothing to discuss" when it comes to Paraguay's diplomatic loyalty.
And kudos to Clara Wardlaw for executing the role of Hector MacQueen when Makenna Taylor was unable to take the stage as planned.
Billy Hector on Friday and Trouble Ahead on Saturday!
Blaming Jaime for his sister's death, Hector left the country and became bonded with a Scarab from the Reach.
Brooke Wood with a cauliflower and her two dogs Hector and Cedric.
Cartagena, as well as Hector Robles, Carlos Macci and Luis Cruz, were arrested in February of last year in connection with Williams' death.
Even in the grand duel between Achilles and Hector, the winner is the warrior less modern in his habits and predilections.
Gov. Kathy Hochul's Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals nominee, Hector D. LaSalle, gives testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Hector Bermudez left his apartment at Lahaina Shores shortly after 4:30 p.m. Tuesday after the smell of smoke woke him up from a nap.
Common combinations with hector
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hector bellerin 19×
- hector and 13×
- and hector 9×
- mg hector 6×
- hector was 6×
- to hector 6×
- of hector 5×
- hector is 5×
- the hector 5×
- captain hector 5×