idol
noun/ˈaɪdl/
/ˈaɪdl/
- a person or thing that is loved and admired very much
- a pop/teen idol
- the idol of countless teenagers
- He has been my idol since I was a child.
- a fallen idol (= somebody who is no longer popular)
Homophones idle | idolidle idol/ˈaɪdl//ˈaɪdl/- idle adjective
- He has had some downtime recently, but he hasn't been idle.
- idle verb
- She's not the sort of person to idle her time away.
- idol noun
- She was my idol when I was growing up.
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc1- She is still my biggest idol.
- He'd always wanted to meet his idol.
- The film made an idol of her.
- a matinee idol of a bygone era
- her screen idol, Marilyn Monroe
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- pop
- rock
- sports
- …
- make (somebody)
- emulate
- imitate
- …
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- (often disapproving) a statue that is worshipped as a godTopics Religion and festivalsc2
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French idole, from Latin idolum ‘image, form’ (used in ecclesiastical Latin in the sense ‘idol’), from Greek eidōlon, from eidos ‘form, shape’.
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