idol
US: /ˈaɪdəɫ/
UK: /ˈaɪdəl/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
idol /'aidl/- danh từ
- tượng thần, thần tượng
- (nghĩa bóng) thần tượng, người được sùng bái, vật được tôn sùng
- ma quỷ
- (triết học) quan niệm sai lầm ((cũng) idolum)
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 a person or thing that is loved and admired very much: a pop / football / teen idol + the idol of countless teenagers + He has been my idol since I was a child. + a fallen idol (= sb who is no longer popular)
2 a statue that is worshipped as a god
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 (graven) image, icon or ikon, effigy, fetish, tiki, symbol:
Nebuchadnezzar's people worshipped golden idols.
2 hero or heroine, superstar, celebrity, luminary, matinée idol, favourite, pet, darling:
When he was a lad his idol was Quatermain, from the Rider Haggard novels.
Collocation
ADJ.
film, football, pop, rock, sports, etc. | teen, teenage
By this time Pitt had become a teenage idol.
VERB + IDOL
make (sb)
Teenagers made Dean their idol. The film made an idol of her.
Concise dictionary
idols'aɪdlnoun
+a material effigy that is worshipped
+someone who is adored blindly and excessively
+an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept
