different between admiration vs idol

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French admiration, or directly from Latin adm?r?ti?, from prefix ad- (“to, towards”) + m?r? (“I look at”) + -?ti?. Compare the verb admire, and US dialectal terms miration and mirate.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æd.m??e??.?n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

admiration (countable and uncountable, plural admirations)

1. A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 1, pp. 4-5,^[1]

     For in this Instance, Life most exactly resembles the Stage, since it is often the same Person who represents the Villain and the Heroe; and he who engages your Admiration To-day, will probably attract your Contempt To-Morrow.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume 1, Chapter 6,^[2]

     A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, New York: Harcout Brace Jovanovich, 1974, Chapter 3, p. 40,^[3]

     Dr. Veraswami had a passionate admiration for the English, which a thousand snubs from Englishmen had not shaken.

   • 1939, John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, 1951, Chapter 19, p. 257,^[4]

     […] in the towns, the storekeepers hated them because they had no money to spend. There is no shorter path to a storekeeper’s contempt, and all his admirations are exactly opposite. The town men, little bankers, hated Okies because there was nothing to gain from them.

2. (obsolete) Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject).
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,^[5]

     Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman?

     Goneril. This admiration, sir, is much o’ th’ savour

     Of other your new pranks.

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Revelation 17:6,^[6]

     And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 3, lines 270-272,^[7]

     […] Admiration seized

     All Heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend,

     Wondering;

3. (obsolete) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 1,^[8]

     Now, good Lafeu,

     Bring in the admiration; that we with thee

     May spend our wonder too, or take off thine

     By wondering how thou took’st it.

Synonyms

• (positive emotion including wonder and approbation): approval, appreciation, adoration, reverence, wonder, worship

Derived terms

• see admire

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin admiratio, admirationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.?a.sj??/

Noun

admiration f (plural admirations)

1. admiration

   Plein d’admiration pour son adversaire, chacun lève sa propre visière : "Elsseneur ! ...", "Réginald ! ..." (Les Chants de Maldoror - Chant V) - Full of admiration for his enemy, ...

Further reading

• “admiration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Scots

Noun

admiration (plural admirations)

1. admiration

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online

English

Alternative forms

• idoll (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French idole, from Latin idolum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (eíd?lon, “image, idol”), from ????? (eîdos, “form”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéydos (“seeing, image”), from *weyd- (“to see”). Doublet of eidolon and idolum.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??d(?)l, IPA^(key): /?a?d(?)l/
• Rhymes: -a?d?l
• Homophones: idle, idyl(l) (US pronunciation)

Noun

idol (plural idols)

1. A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.
   • 1911 The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God, J. Milton Hayes:

     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.

2. A cultural icon, or especially popular person.
3. (Asia, originally Japan) Popular entertainer; usually young, captivating, attractive; and often female, with an image of being close to fans.
   • '26 January 2016, Mariko Oi, The dark side of Asia’s pop music industry - BBC News

4. (obsolete) An eidolon or phantom; something misleading or elusive.

Synonyms

• (a worshipped representation): afgod (obsolete)
• (a celebrated person): icon, star, superstar

Derived terms

• idolatry
• idolise, idolize

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (aidoru)

Translations

Anagrams

• Lodi, OLDI, diol, lido, loid, olid

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?l

Noun

idol n (singular definite idolet, plural indefinite idoler)

1. idol

Inflection

Polish

Etymology

From French idole, from Latin ?d?lum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (eíd?lon, “image; idol”), from ????? (eîdos, “form”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.d?l/

Noun

idol m pers (feminine idolka)

1. idol (cultural icon, especially popular person)

Declension

Noun

idol m inan

1. idol (representation of anything revered)

   Synonyms: bo?ek, ba?wan

Declension

Further reading

• idol in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• idol in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Greek ?????? (eídolo), partially through the intermediate of Old Church Slavonic ????? (idol?). Compare Aromanian idul, Serbo-Croatian idol.

Noun

idol m (plural idoli)

1. idol
2. pagan divinity
3. (popular) demon

Synonyms

• (demon): demon, drac, diavol, aghiu??, naiba

Related terms

• idolatru
• idolatrie

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?do?l/
• Hyphenation: i?dol

Noun

ìd?l m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. idol

Declension