idol
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈaɪdəl/
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ídolo
- Who are your top three idols in your life?
- favorite idol
- idol worship
- choose idols
Please welcome one of my personal idols, Z Way from it all.
- Please welcome one of my personal idols, Z Way from it all.
- They're my friends, they're my idols, they're my family.
- You also asked who are my fashion idols, if I have any.
- I think at that point, who'd you say is your idol or like your your main mentor?
- He was from Bulgaria and he was an idol in Arsenal.
- Stop worshipping false idols and buy yourself a piece of Donald Trump's old suit.
- He also meets William McKinley and he meets one of his idols, Walt Whitman.
- But after I tried to to watch Sandra, Nesta was my idol also when we played together.
- Maybe imagine if his own idol likes my pick or he'd really get that one.
- Now you refer to him as my idol.
- Today we have Jordan Brompton, who is just one of my idols, really.
- Howard Cosell was that was my idol and Bob Costas and Bryant Gumbel.
- I've been, you know, there's this expression never meet your idols.
- So when I was starting to make films, the Duplass brothers were idols of mine.
Examples
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Please welcome one of my personal idols, Z Way from it all.
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He's been my idol for so many years, I think.
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This made him an idol.
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I believe I was his idol at Exeter.
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You're officially my idol now, man.
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For many years, Ashe had been the idol of Michael Wilbon, a reporter for the Washington Post.
Academic text (1993) -
Yeah, well, my idol, Clarence Darrow would be outraged.
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He was my idol.
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They're my friends, they're my idols, they're my family.
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He has always been my idol for his dedication to environmental causes.
Synonyms
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7.5
A person who is admired and often the main guest at events
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5.4
A famous person, usually a man, who many people feel strong romantic attraction to
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6.6
A handsome actor who many fans admire often in films or theatre
A person treated as if they had great power and importance by other people
Compounds
How Admired
Surface Forms
Etymology
Idol comes from the Greek word eidolon, meaning 'image' that people used in worship. Because people treated these images like gods, calling someone an idol can mean fans adore them almost without question.