English | German | Russian | Czech
C2

idol English

Meaning idol meaning

What does idol mean?
Definitions in simple English

idol

An idol is a famous person who is greatly admired, loved by many people. An image of a god that people pray.

idol

(= graven image, god) a material effigy that is worshipped thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image money was his god someone who is adored blindly and excessively (= paragon) an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept

Synonyms idol synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as idol?

Topics idol topics

What do people use idol to talk about?
  • What words refer to an object that represents a god?

Examples idol examples

How do I use idol in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom is my idol.
That singer is a teenage idol.
She was, so to speak, our idol.
Tom is a teen idol.
King Hezekiah broke into pieces the brazen serpent, because the sons of Israel made an idol out of it, thereby violating the second commandment.

Movie subtitles

Farandola returns the idol to the King of Siam.
Montfleury, idol of the Parisian stage.
And what art thou, thou idol ceremony, that sufferest more of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
Because of your worry to lose land, you almost became an idol worshiper.
Another idol has replaced me in your heart. A golden idol. It's singular.
He is no idol, no tangible thing.
An idol-worshipper!
An idol.
For idol-worshippers!
We must make an idol of our fear and that idol we shall call God.
Gonna do it alone, huh? All you gotta do is solve the murder. and also prove that the idol of the police force is a fraud.
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah so shall He send hosts to destroy the idol-worshipers.
I don't want to be the woman who drove to despair the hero, the crowd's idol.
Still Kwan Yin, eh? Still an idol instead of a soul.
Train your cannon on that heathen idol and fire when ready.
Another idol has replaced me in your heart. A golden idol.
And as your business prospered, Ebenezer Scrooge, a golden idol took possession of your heart. as Alice said it would.
The new leading man of the Cotton Blossom Troupe and coming idol of the river, or I don't know my business.
Mitch's old man is my dad's boyhood pal. his idol, I guess.
You were my idol.
I don't want to be the woman who drove to despair the great hero, the idol of the masses.
Movie idol of the Roaring '20s.
A teen idol.
However, today he's an idol in Nefer.
Listen to their idol.
Barbara found it on the idol.
Two days later, we were to immerse the idol of the Goddess in the river.
This thing becomes wife, lover, best friend, wise man, fool, idol, slave.
Being an Idol is. it's being identified with God.
That's Idol!
Your Idol.
But it sure makes an Idol!

News and current affairs

From a crowd favourite, an idol of women and intellectuals, Yeltsin turned into a feeble old man who aroused pity.
That same mass media also created a new idol who has now swept all before him.
Two centuries after French troops were run out of Moscow in 1812, Putin has succeeded in making a French popular idol want to be Russian.
Indeed, while millions of Arabs tune in weekly to watch and vote for their favorite singers on the Arabic version of The Voice and Arab Idol, a fund-raising campaign for the benefit of Syrian refugees has yet to be organized.

Are you looking for...?