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- Dictionaryidolize/ˈʌɪdəlʌɪz/
verb
- 1. admire, revere, or love greatly or excessively: "he idolized his mother"
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IDOLIZE definition: 1. to admire and respect someone very much, often too much: 2. to admire and respect someone very…. Learn more.
broadly : to love or admire to excess. the common people whom he so idolized The Times Literary Supplement (London) intransitive verb. : to practice idolatry. idolization. ˌī-də-lə-ˈzā-shən. noun. idolizer. ˈī-də-ˌlī-zər. noun. Synonyms. adore. adulate. canonize. deify. dote (on) hero-worship. worship. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus.
You can idolize someone you've never met, like a famous actor, and you can also idolize a friend or family member. A boy who idolizes his father adores him unquestioningly, believing that everything he does is admirable. Another way to say idolize is worship, and both words have a religious origin.
To idolize someone is to treat them with extreme admiration and devotion. This sense of the word is based on the figurative use of the word idol to refer to a person, especially a famous celebrity such as a pop singer, whose fans are extremely devoted to them.
verb. /ˈaɪdəlaɪz/ ( British English also idolise) (sometimes disapproving) Verb Forms. idolize somebody to admire or love somebody very much, possibly too much synonym worship. a pop star idolized by millions of fans. They idolize their kids. Young children often idolize their parents. Topics Feelings c2. Take your English to the next level.
IDOLIZE meaning: 1. to admire and respect someone very much, often too much: 2. to admire and respect someone very…. Learn more.
Definition of 'idolize' Word Frequency. idolize. (aɪdəlaɪz ) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense idolizes , present participle idolizing , past tense, past participle idolized regional note: in BRIT, also use idolise. verb. If you idolize someone, you admire them very much. Naomi idolised her father as she was growing up. [VERB noun]
idolize meaning, definition, what is idolize: to admire and love someone so much that ...: Learn more.
v.t. to regard with blind adoration, devotion, etc. to worship as a god. v.i. to practice idolatry: to idolize as did ancient Greece and Rome. Also, [ esp. Brit.,] i′dol•ise′. idol + - ize 1590–1600. i′dol•i•za′tion, n. i′dol•iz′er, n. 1. . adore, treasure, worship, dote upon. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Idolize definition: To regard with great or uncritical admiration or devotion.
