to lionize

Examples

• All

• But after his death, he too was lionized and his house is now a museum.

  Harvard University

• Why do we continue to lionize geniuses such as Edison, Hemingway, and Jobs?

  YaleCourses

• And we're the clever ones who are going to be lionized for seeing what's obvious.

  Fiction book (1994)

• But let's talk about someone who is lionized by many people and perhaps unrightly so.

• Whereas Robert Byrd was lionized as a great man of the Senate.

  Blog text (5)

• Fletcher saw recent evidence of Romantic resurgence in the growing popularity of artifacts that lionize our past warriors.

  Academic text (2008)

• Which is why I think one of the dangers in a place like Silicon Valley is you see these exceptional successes lionized on magazine covers.

• And you see that in particular with the lionizing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

• On the floor of Congress, lawmakers lionized Penn State's Joe Paterno.

  Blog text (24)

• The community decided to lionize the local hero for his bravery during the disaster.

Synonyms

C

to celebrate

vsto lionize

201 2.1

To praise someone in public for something they did

leans more toward creating celebrity-level attention rather than formal celebration

G

to glorify

vsto lionize

86 5.2

To make a person or thing seem better and more important than they really are

focuses on wide public attention and celebrity style praise instead

I

to idolize

vsto lionize

• US

42 4.9

Admire someone very much, often ignoring their faults

gives public celebrity attention and praise rather than private devotion

P

to popularize

vsto lionize

• US

21 4.2

To make an idea, activity, or subject known and liked by many people

aims more at elevating a person to celebrity attention than broad acceptance

V

to valorize

vsto lionize

• Formal

1 8.3

To show that something has value, often by giving public support

relies on public praise and fame rather than formal recognition or policy

A

to apotheosize

vsto lionize

• Literature

9.9

To make someone seem like a god or without faults

gives fame and public praise rather than divine or religious status

I

to idolatrize

vsto lionize

• US

9.9

To admire someone too much and ignore their faults

gives broad public praise and attention rather than religious worship

H

to heroize

vsto lionize

7.9

To make someone seem very brave and admired

gives celebrity-style public attention rather than mainly heroic framing

I

to iconize

vsto lionize

7.9

To make a person or thing seem famous and admired by many

focuses more on broad public attention and praise than symbolic status

M

to mediatize

vsto lionize

• Literature

7.9

To make something well known by giving it a lot of media attention

centres on public praise and celebrity treatment rather than media process

Antonyms

I

to ignore

∞ 1.0

Choose not to pay attention to someone or something

D

to disparage

28 7.7

To speak badly about someone or something to show little respect

How Celebrated

to idolize

• US

42 4.9

to lionize

• Literature

5 7.7

to celebrate

201 2.1

to praise

331 1.0

to recognize

• Formal

305 1.4

to notice

∞ 1.0

to ignore

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology