hero worship
a profound reverence for great people or their memory.
extravagant or excessive admiration for a personal hero.
Origin of hero worship
1Words Nearby hero worship
Other definitions for hero-worship (2 of 2)
to feel or express hero worship for.
Origin of hero-worship
2Other words from hero-worship
- he·ro-wor·ship·er, noun
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How to use hero worship in a sentence
In recent years, the American food media has become more aware of its tendency to indulge in hero worship.
Devoid of insight and ricocheting between dull vulgarity and vacuous hero worship, the show, which had its official opening Wednesday at the Longacre Theatre, is less edifying than a scroll through the archives of the tabloids.
In time for Thanksgiving, Broadway serves up a turkey: ‘Diana’ the musical | Peter Marks | November 18, 2021 | Washington PostThe near-hero-worship in Washington rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of Israeli politics itself.
It is to hero-worship players while considering them disposable as human beings.
Players' Physical Abuse, Sandusky Case Show Little Honor Left in Football | Peter Beinart | November 21, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTPushing people to their limit wins you respect and a dose of hero worship.
Perhaps he is a little conscious of his charm; if so, it is hardly his fault, for hero-worship has been his lot from boyhood.
First Plays | A. A. MilneEric learned a great deal of harm from Upton, and the misapplied hero-worship led to bad results.
Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. FarrarThe Homeric age is one which had outgrown ancestor and hero worship, and had not, like the age of the Cyclics, relapsed into it.
Homer and His Age | Andrew LangHe is for that reason ready also to admire men of action, and is wide open for the influences of hero-worship.
Fifty-Two Story Talks To Boys And Girls | Howard J. Chidleyhero worship, this, which enlarges one's self through the admiration given to another.
A Girl's Student Days and After | Jeannette Marks
British Dictionary definitions for hero worship
admiration for heroes or idealized persons
worship by the ancient Greeks and Romans of heroes
(tr) to feel admiration or adulation for
Derived forms of hero worship
- hero-worshipper, noun
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