(v. t.) To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.
(v. t.) To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.
(v. t.) To adorn.
Example Sentences:
(1) "My wonderful, brave and adored father, Jack Ashley, Lord Ashley of Stoke, has died after a short battle with pneumonia."
(2) But how and when would the boozy, workshy, adorable slob who had spent 30 years twice a week in millions of British living rooms go?
(3) If the experts are correct, he will elaborate this homespun philosophy before a necessarily adoring congress, confirming that it replaces his father’s songun (“military first”) mantera.
(4) True, that comment was made early in Guardiola’s spell as Bayern manager and perhaps it was just a way of endearing himself to his new captain, but there is no doubt the former Barcelona manager adores Lahm.
(5) "When Lee was born the family adored him, he was a precious gift given to us."
(6) I adore them all, from the grand level of chaining yourself to a building to the less high-maintenance, where you can pop home for your tea.
(7) Mood Indigo (18 July) Arguably the most French movie ever made, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou are quite adorable as fairy tale lovers in Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's Froth on the Daydream.
(8) Her family said Boden was “loved and adored by her family, friends and boyfriend”.
(9) I adored Chez Elles in Brick Lane's Banglatown; and Otto's , on Gray's Inn Road, looks set to be the capital's next insider secret, with a menu that doesn't appear to have met the 21st century: it does canard à la presse, for goodness sake.
(10) Wilson, though, quick to adopt new personas, and adapt to new circumstances, adored the attention, and shrewdly exploited his role as local minor celebrity when it came to what he was really interested in - helping Manchester to recreate itself as a major city, with its radical, inventive and progressive traditions intact.
(11) Where we revere and anthropomorphise such brutal predators as sharks, tigers and bears, we view these tiny ectoparasites as worthless, an evolutionary accident with no redeeming or adorable characteristics.
(12) At the place where adorable meets obnoxious and the purr becomes a shriek, Leslie Mann is waiting to unload a howitzer of funny in your face.
(13) Pinter adores poetry, would perhaps have preferred his poetry to have taken precedence over his plays, and his prose often has the compression and musicality of poetry, what he calls the "question of rhythm".
(14) The digestive system of the Ophryoscolescides includes different parts : the adoral ciliary zone, the cytostome, the oesophagus, the endoplasm, the rectum and the anus.
(15) How would you describe a person with an adoring sister and admiring father creating a child despised by father and siblings?
(16) While his political allegiances led to the ransacking of his office in 1965, following the coup d'etat the year before that brought the military to power under General Castelo Branco, Niemeyer remained a well known and popular figure among ordinary Brazilians, to whom he was always "Oscar", and evidently adored, although younger generations of Brazilian architects have inevitably felt hidden in his shadow.
(17) Gentile da Fabriano (d 1427) in his Adoration of the Kings, demonstrates a similar response of toe extension in the infant Jesus when one of the Magi kisses the baby's foot.
(18) Babyhood lasts for so little time that I am happy to take the route nature intended and feed my children without using formula and the look of adoration from your baby is worth it.
(19) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
(20) Marr may have copped flak, but the incident was an early example of how Cameron – an old Etonian who also professes to adore the Jam's coruscating The Eton Rifles – can be light on detail.
Idolize
Definition:
(v. t.) To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt.
(v. t.) To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.
(v. i.) To practice idolatry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new generation of political leaders were the children of Elvis and the Beatles: they looked up to their older pop idols.
(2) At first hardline Islamist groups, and later the country’s religious establishment, had been calling for the statue’s removal, on the grounds that its presence was an example of idol worship, forbidden in Islam .
(3) And I decided that the best way for me to come to America was to become a bodybuilding champion, because I knew that was the ticket the instant that I saw a magazine cover of my idol, Reg Park.
(4) For a time it did indeed appear as though Manning was destined to follow the same path as Marino – his great idol – remembered as one of the all-time greats but forever haunted over his failure to win a Super Bowl.
(5) Cowell's contract will expire after the ninth run of the top-rating American Idol, which has made household names of contestants including Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson, with an American version of X Factor due to air in time for the 2011 season.
(6) Dick Clark married music and television long before American Idol.
(7) A low-key Austrian with a profile to match, Zeiler oversees a global TV powerhouse that broadcasts in 11 countries and makes programmes in 22, including Pop Idol and The X Factor.
(8) First to get cancelled : Does it count that American Idol has been cancelled already ?
(9) Fuller claimed that The X Factor has stolen parts of the Pop Idol format and took legal action.
(10) Cantona had joined Leeds only the previous February but was already an idol to the Elland Road faithful.
(11) She has been a member of the American star’s fan club for six years and was lucky enough to meet her idol in 2012 – a signed T-shirt and framed picture of the pair together adorns her bedroom wall.
(12) A sample of IDOL files (n = 115) was obtained, and relevant data elements were coded.
(13) We see it in the people who have forgotten their encounter with the Lord ... in those who depend completely on their here and now, on their passions, whims and manias, in those who build walls around themselves and become enslaved to the idols that they have built with their own hands.” 7) Being rivals or boastful.
(14) "Pop Idol changed from a singing contest to a story show when Gareth Gates stood before the panel of judges, and stuttered, before singing like an angel.
(15) Though farmers comprise just 0.3% of the population of England and 1.4% of the rural population , ministers treat them and their lobbyists as an idol before which they must prostrate themselves.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Florian Philippot pays homage at the tomb of his idol, Charles de Gaulle in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, in 2014.
(17) Wang, a businessman, thinks the retired basketball star and idol of Chinese youth has it all wrong about shark fishing.
(18) They begin to consider and learn alternatives for coping with daily pressures rather than falling victim to a rock idol's solution, which is frequently withdrawal from society or aggression toward it.
(19) But that one picture in 1954, George Cukor's musical remake of A Song Is Born , in which she played a rising young actress married to a sinking matinee idol (James Mason), proved to be the peak of her career.
(20) On Chennai's marina beach on Wednesday evening, a 25-year-old photographer named Durai shouted for business at his stand, where customers could have their picture taken with life-size cutouts of film idols against a background of an English country village.