hero worship
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈhɪəroʊ ˈwɜːrʃɪp/
:
adoración de héroes
- One final thing, Randy, I suggest you stop it with the hero worship.
- a case of hero worship
- much hero worship
And you know, this kind of hero worship.
- And you know, this kind of hero worship.
- So that's that's sort of cured me of a lot of hero worship.
- Because I thought if she can reframe in Auschwitz, I can reframe in my life, but I can apply that hero worship to Edith.
- But it doesn't mean you go to this is when it crosses to this weird subjugate my individuality hero worship.
Examples
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Let's stop the hero worship of the "founders."
Blog text (16) -
Then surely it was never love but simply your need, your rather juvenile hero worship.
Academic text (2011) -
A sort of hero worship.
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But it's just some kind of hero worship thing...
Fiction book (1990) -
A genuine case of hero worship if I ever saw it.
Fiction book (1990) -
I love that there's no hero worship of certain blogebrities.
Blog text (29) -
What offends me is hero worship under the guise of claims of science and tech development.
Blog text (1) -
Less known is my father's hero worship of Lord Nelson, the embodiment of grace under pressure—and sexual scandal.
Academic text (1999) -
Such a choice between abject hero worship and dehumanizing agitprop shows once again, as it did 70 years ago, what happens when artists become courtiers and put themselves in the service of ideology.
Academic text (2009) -
Many fans exhibit hero worship towards their favorite musicians, often idolizing them without questioning their actions.
Synonyms
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7.6
A situation where many people admire and support a leader without question
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6.5
Giving great praise and honor to a person or thing
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7.6
Very strong admiration for someone or something, often too much
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8.6
Strong, blind support for a person, group, or product that ignores faults
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6.8
Strong admiration that makes someone seem perfect
Treating a person as if they were a god
Antonyms
How Admiring
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'intense or excessive admiration for someone' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'hero' (a celebrated or admired person) with 'worship' (intense reverential admiration); a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer this sense. The noun+noun composition follows common compounding patterns and has clear parallels in many languages, so the phrase is immediately comprehensible rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
Hero worship comes from the image of people treating a hero like a god and giving worship, for example bowing or leaving flowers at a statue. So it means 'very strong admiration', often without seeing the person's faults.