adore
- to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- to pay divine honor to; worship: to adore God.
- to like or admire very much: I simply adore the way your hair is done!
- to worship.
Origin of adore
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revere, admire, cherish, idolize, worship, glorify, prize, treasure, exalt, venerate, dig, esteem, reverence, honorExamples from the Web for adore
Contemporary Examples of adore
Nutrition nannies scorn hot dogs, but there are plenty of happy eaters who adore them.
Well, in any case, Tina and moi are now close personal friends and we adore each other.
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To stick around any longer—as much as I adore Rust and Marty and the whole Carcosa mystery—would have broken the spell.
For example, I adore the girl groups of the early 1960s: The Cookies, The Ronettes, The Shangri La's, and so on.
They adore spending time with each other, especially when Elsa uses her secret power to make it snow inside the castle.
Historical Examples of adore
I adore that car, Katy, and I don't know how I have ever kept my fingers off it this long.
Her Father's DaughterGene Stratton-Porter
Was this the way you used to take to make us all adore you as we did?
Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9)Samuel Richardson
Unfortunately for my peace of mind, I adore but too readily.
Little DorritCharles Dickens
I adore the sea and the plain, but I neither care for mountains nor for forests.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
I adore having people come to see me, and I detest going to see them.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
adore
- (tr) to love intensely or deeply
- to worship (a god) with religious rites
- (tr) informal to like very muchI adore chocolate
Word Origin for adore
Word Origin and History for adore
late 14c., aouren, "to worship, pay divine honors to, bow down before," from Old French aorer "to adore, worship, praise" (10c.), from Latin adorare "speak to formally, beseech, ask in prayer," in Late Latin "to worship," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + orare "speak formally, pray" (see orator). Meaning "to honor very highly" is attested from 1590s; weakened sense of "to be very fond of" emerged by 1880s. Related: Adored; adoring.