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UK
/ˈaɪdəl/
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[ US /ˈaɪdəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈaɪdəɫ/ ]
NOUN
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a material effigy that is worshipped
thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
money was his god - someone who is adored blindly and excessively
- an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept
How To Use idol In A Sentence
- She has one annoying but lovable big brother that looks out for her, and a little sister that adores and idolizes her.
- Likewise, it was ixnay on the ommentcay when asked about reports that former show exec producer Nigel Lythgoe is returning triumphant to the show after having been pushed aside a couple of seasons back when that was their Really Bright Idea for jump-starting "Idol" and revving up ratings. 'D.C. Cupcakes' will get second season; only Ryan Seacrest certain on 'Idol'
- Long gone are the days when Chairman Mao was idolised by radicals (and even respected by some mainstream academics) on American university campuses.
- Wilder grew up loving Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but his great idol was famed director Ernst Lubitsch.
- Those brought up in the punk rock era will have a twinge of nostalgia for the days when it was a badge of honour to be gobbed on by your idols.
- “Never enough, sir, while one of the idolatrous tyrants is left unhanged,” said he, with a right bitter smile. Westward Ho!
- Amosite, fibrous anthophyllite, fibrous tremolite, fibrous actinolite, and crocidolite are amphiboles, double-chain silicates, which observed microscopically look like sharp needles.
- The sin of idolatry may lie less in the actual action of worshipping a foreign god than in the denial of the universals that such worship implies.
- The little silver bell tinkles at a wayside shrine, calling the labouring man to propitiate the idol for the carelessness and detected dishonesties of his day's labours, and goodly Hindus, men and women, stream down the busy thoroughfare, responsive to the call. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
- Where the god and the idolon were most nearly one there was least danger of confounding them. Surprised by Joy