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Idol
idol
(idols) 1. If you refer to someone such as a film, pop, or sports star as an idol, you mean that they are greatly admired or loved by their fans. A great cheer went up from the crowd as they caught sight of their idol... N-COUNT: usu with supp 2. An idol is a statue or other object that is worshipped by people who believe that it is a god. N-COUNT 3. If you refer to someone as a fallen idol, you mean that they have lost people’s respect and admiration because of something bad that they have done. PHRASE: N inflects
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noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French idle, from Late Latin ~um, from Greek eidolon image, ~; akin to Greek eidos form — more at idyll Date: 13th century 1. a representation or symbol of an object of worship; broadly a false god 2. a. a likeness of something b. obsolete pretender, impostor 3. a form or appearance visible but without substance an enchanted phantom, a lifeless ~ — P. B. Shelley 4. an object of extreme devotion a movie ~; also ideal 2 5. a false conception ; fallacy ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 an image of a deity etc. used as an object of worship. 2 Bibl. a false god. 3 a person or thing that is the object of excessive or supreme adulation (cinema idol). 4 archaic a phantom. Etymology: ME f. OF idole f. L idolum f. Gk eidolon phantom f. eidos form ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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4.
1. идол, божество nuclear idol —- ядерный молохъ 2. кумир, предмет слепого поклонения to make an idol of smb. —- боготворить кого-л., делать кого-л. кумиром ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 someone or something that you love or admire very much (be the idol of) (a football player who was the idol of the younger boys | TV/pop idol (=a famous actor or performer that many people admire)) (the chance to meet your favorite TV idol) 2 a picture or statue that is worshipped as a god ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
7.
- c.1250, from O.Fr. idole, from L.L. idolum "image (mental or physical), form," used in Church L. for "false god," from Gk. eidolon "appearance," especially "apparition, phantom," from eidos "form." Figurative sense of "something idolized" is first recorded 1562. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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