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idol

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"Admired figure"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈaɪ.dl̩/Part of speech nounSorted diloStarts with IEnds with L1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a material effigy that is worshipped

Word origin

From Middle English ydole, from Old French idole, from Latin idolum, from Ancient Greek εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “image, idol”), from εἶδος (eîdos, “form”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéydos (“seeing, image”), from *weyd- (“to see”). Doublet of aidoru, eidolon, and idolum and related to idea.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Tom Cruise is his idol.
  • Sachin Tendulkar is Rohan's idol.

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