idol 
idol (īd′'l)
noun
- an image of a god, used as an object or instrument of worship
- in monotheistic belief, any heathen deity
- any object of ardent or excessive devotion or admiration
- a false notion or idea that causes errors in thinking or reasoning
- Archaic anything that has no substance but can be seen, as an image in a mirror
- Obsolete
- any image or effigy
- an impostor
Etymology: ME idole < OFr < L idolum, an image, form, specter, apparition (in LL(Ec), idol) < Gr eidōlon, an image, phantom (in LGr(Ec), idol) < eidos, form: see -oid
idol
n.
A deified image
icon, graven image, effigy, god, false god, Baal, figurine, fetish, totem, joss, golden calf, avatar, simulacrum, pagan deity, mumbo-jumbo*; see also image 2, statue.A venerated object or person
hero, heroine, god, goddess, desire, true-love, beloved, darling, favorite, ideal, role model, inamorata.
Converse of object
- worship: Abraham heard God call him to leave Iraq, where his family worshiped idols.
- carve: I will not share my praise with carved idols.
- destroy: The old rabbi was asked why God didn't just destroy all idols instead of merely telling people not to worship them.
- pop: A treasure trove for fans of Japanese music, matching theme songs to pop idols.
Adjective modifier
- Moorish: The reefs are teeming with colorful tropical fish such as angel, butterfly, surgeonfish and graceful moorish idols.
- teen: They don't come much more teen idol than Fabian.
- dumb: For the workman trusts in his own creation when he makes dumb idols!
- false: What they are making of us are false idols merely.
- teenage: The latest example of this decline is the new song of the teenage pop idol, Gareth Gates.
- wooden: Verse eight says, " A wooden idol is a worthless doctrine.
Modifies a noun
- worshiper: Mohammed claimed to be a prophet, a warner of the idol worshipers in his time.
- worshipper: His son Solomon is even worse, he became an idols worshipper!
- worship: Sometimes the idol worship required kissing the cat below the tail.
- meat: They are those to whom particularly the injunctions about ' idol meat ' are addressed.
- temple: Here are ornaments on the churchwarden's mantlepiece that were stolen from an idol temple he visited on holiday.
Noun used with modifier
- matinee: And the third film starred Jack Buchanan, who was a matinee idol of the time.
- pop: Maybe you have read about the life of a famous pop idol, soap actor or film star in a magazine.
- pagan: Their heirs later even sent a huge pagan idol, a ' Statue of Liberty ' , to naive Americans.
- worship: People who worship idols are longing for something to bring them satisfaction in life.
- sporting: Our sporting idols are revealed for what they are.
Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides,ö And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as Nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul. Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again,ö The grand Perhaps.
An' I seed her first a-smokin'of a whackin' white cheroot, An'a-wastin'Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot.
Ein Gott, der sich von uns beweisen lieÞe, w a« re ein G o« tze. A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right over thestick Iamaboutto cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.
The order of nobility is of great use, too, not only in what it creates, but in what it prevents. It prevents the rule of wealthöthe religion of gold. This is the obvious and natural idol of the Anglo-Saxon From this our aristocracy preserves us.
There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There'sa broken-heartedwomantendsthegrave of Mad Carew, And theYellow God forever gazes down.
I was their plaything and their idol, and something betterötheir child.
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