Английский Этимологический словарь - idol
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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
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(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 ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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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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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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