worship synonyms

worship

n.

  1. Adoration

    prayer, devotion, homage, adulation, benediction, invocation, supplication, beatification, veneration, offering, reverence, honor, Mariolatry, hagiolatry, religious ritual.

  2. A religious service

    Mass, vespers, devotions; see church 2.

worship

v.

  1. To adore

    adore, idolize, exalt, adulate; see admire 1, love 1, revere.

  2. To perform acts of worship

    sanctify, pray to, invoke, venerate, glorify, praise, exalt, offer prayers to, pay homage to, return thanks, give thanks, sing praises to, reverence, celebrate, adore, revere, laud, extol, magnify, chant, bow down before, kneel before, prostrate oneself before, canonize; see also pray 2. See syn. study at revere.

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