Definitions for adulation

adulation ad·u·la·tion

Spelling: [aj-uh-ley-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌædʒ əˈleɪ ʃən/

Adulation is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 387 anagrams from letters in adulation (aadilnotu).

Definitions for adulation

noun

  1. excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.

Origin of adulation

Middle English Middle French Latin adūlātiōn- (stem of adūlātiō) servile flattery, fawning, equivalent to adūlāt(us), past participle of adūlārī, -āre to fawn upon (of dogs), apparently a nom

Examples for adulation

Through all this adulation Franklin passed serenely, if not unconsciously.

Never was a poor fellow in this world less suited to adulation of this sort.

If you people will think back you'll realize you've all been raised on adulation of Germany.

So here Obama is, craving security and adulation, but being denied both.

Apollo misses the adulation of believers, and wants to fill a new planet with humans who will worship him.

Before NYC Prep, reality TV stars were sources of entertainment, but never objects of envy or adulation.

Lafayette, more interested in his own nationwide tour of adulation, declined.

But adulation, flunkeyism, concert, covered the spark with dirt and mud.

The audience was not yet done showering Simons with adulation.

He had simply laughed off their adulation; but he was not laughing now.

Word Value for adulation
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Words with friends

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