Admire vs Idol - What's the difference?
admire | idol |
(obsolete) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
*, II.2.4:
* Fuller
To regard with wonder and delight.
to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence;
to estimate or prize highly.
A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.
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, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
* 1911 (The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God) , :
A cultural icon, or especially popular person.
As a verb admire
is .As a noun idol is
idol.admire
English
Verb
(admir)- The poor fellow, admiring how he came there, was served in state all day long […].
- examples rather to be admired than imitated
- to admire''' a person of high moral worth, to '''admire a landscape
Derived terms
(terms derived from admire) * admirable * admirer * admiration * admirativeAnagrams
* ----idol
English
Noun
(en noun)- There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town; There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the Yellow God forever gazes down.