Definitions for idol

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idol i·dol

Spelling: [ahyd-l]

IPA: /ˈaɪd l/

Idol is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in idol (dilo).

Definitions for idol

noun

1. an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed.
2. Bible. an image of a deity other than God. the deity itself.
3. any person or thing regarded with blind admiration, adoration, or devotion:
4. a mere image or semblance of something, visible but without substance, as a phantom.
5. a figment of the mind; fantasy.
6. a false conception or notion; fallacy.

Origin of idol

1200-50; Middle English Late Latin īdōlum Greek eídōlon image, idol, derivative of eîdos shape, form

Examples for idol

But you know the old man has become a miser, and makes money his idol.

The standard bearers of reality TV—American idol, Dancing With the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance—are aging.

Nearly 90 years later, a group of magicians still honors their idol with a “Broken Wand” ceremony at his gravesite each year.

He had written of his idol before; but it was not till I came that he told it all to me.

These are men and women who want to retain faith in an idol, who just want to forgive and forget.

But Mammon was never the name of an idol or other form of false deity.

After all, it's a satisfaction to find that one's idol makes a handsome bibelot.

Ratings for talent competitions like idol, once viewership juggernauts, are plummeting.

The other thing about idol was that it really was a star-maker at first.

He at least did not think that the idol had been forsaken because the use of his name was given up.