a hero of superhuman strength and courage who performed twelve immense tasks or ‘labours’ imposed on him by king Eurystheus and who after death was ranked among the gods

a large northern constellation, said to represent the kneeling figure of Hercules. It contains the brightest globular cluster in the northern hemisphere, but no bright stars

a man of exceptional strength or size

a tall young man with the limbs and chest of a Hercules

used with preceding Greek letter or numeral to designate a star in the Hercules constellation

the star Delta Herculis