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English

Etymology

From adore +? -er.

Noun

adorer (plural adorers)

1. Someone who adores.
   1. Someone who worships.
      • 1582, Gregory Martin (translator), The New Testament of Jesus Christ, Translated Faithfully into English, Reims: John Fogny, John 4.23, p. 226,^[1]

        But the houre commeth, and now it is, when the true adorers shal adore the Father in spirit and veritie.

      • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, London, Book 8, lines 140-143,^[2]

        […] I in one Night freed

        From servitude inglorious welnigh half

        Th’ Angelic Name, and thinner left the throng

        Of his adorers […]

      • 1798, Thomas Paine, Atheism Refuted, London: J. Johnson, p. 17,^[3]

        All men in the outset of the religion they profess are adorers of a God, and friends of man.

      Synonyms: devotee, worshipper

   2. Someone who has a deep admiration, fondness or love (of someone or something).
      • c. 1609,, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act I, Scene 4,^[4]

        […] I profess myself her adorer, not her friend.

      • 1732, George Berkeley, Alciphron, Dublin: G. Risk et al., Volume 2, Dialogue 6, Chapter 32, p. 83,^[5]

        I who profess my self an Admirer, an Adorer of Reason, am obliged to own, that in some Cases the Sharpness of Ridicule can do more than the Strength of Argument.

      • 1871, W. S. Gilbert, “Old Paul and Old Tim” in More “Bab” Ballads, London: Routledge, 1892, p. 164,^[6]

        When rival adorers come courting a maid,

        There’s something or other may often be said,

        Why he should be pitched upon rather than him.

        This wasn’t the case with Old PAUL and Old TIM.

      • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, London: Picador, Chapter 13, p. 403,^[7]

        The funny thing was that all the envelopes were addressed in the same hand, in green or sometimes purple capitals. It was like one crazed adorer laying siege to Leo.

      Synonym: admirer

Translations

Anagrams

• roader, roared

Catalan

Etymology

Ador +? -er

Adjective

adorer (feminine adorera, masculine plural adorers, feminine plural adoreres)

1. Ador (Valencia, Spain) (attributive), of Ador, from Ador

Noun

adorer m (plural adorers, feminine adorera)

1. a person from, or an inhabitant of Ador, Valencia, Spain

Further reading

• “adorer” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “adorer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “adorer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Old French adorer, borrowed from Latin ad?r?, ad?r?re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d?.?e/

Verb

adorer

1. to love, to adore
2. (religion) to worship

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: adore

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• dorera, rodera, rôdera

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?do?.rer/, [ä?d?o???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?do.rer/, [??d?????r]

Verb

ad?rer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of ad?r?

Old French

Alternative forms

• adurer

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ad?r?, ad?r?re. Doublet of aorer. The -d- was re-introduced from influence from Ecclesiastical Latin.

Verb

adorer

1. (chiefly Christianity) to praise (usually God)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• Middle French: adorer
  • French: adorer
    • Haitian Creole: adore
  • ? Dutch: adoreren
• ? Middle English: adoren
  • English: adore

English

Etymology

From Middle English *adoren, aouren, from Old French adorer, aorer, from Latin ad?r?, from ad (“to”) + ?r? (“I speak”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?dô?, IPA^(key): /??d??/
• (General American) enPR: ?dôr?, IPA^(key): /??d??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?d?r?, IPA^(key): /??do(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /??do??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: adore

Verb

adore (third-person singular simple present adores, present participle adoring, simple past and past participle adored)

1. To worship.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,^[1]

     Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?

   • 1758, Tobias Smollett, A Complete History of England, London: James Rivington and James Fletcher, 3rd edition, Volume 6, Book 8, “William III,” p. 29,^[2]

     [James] was met at the castle-gate by a procession of […] bishops and priests in their pontificals, bearing the host, which he publicly adored.

   • 1852, Frederick Oakeley (translator), “O Come, All Ye Faithful” in Francis H. Murray, A Hymnal for Use in the English Church,^[3]

     Come and behold him

     Born the King of Angels:

     O come, let us adore Him,

     Christ the Lord.

   Antonym: disdain

2. To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
   • 1849, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Volume I, Chapter 5, p. 388,^[4]

     The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth.

   Antonym: disdain

3. To be very fond of.

   • "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"

4. (obsolete) To adorn.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 4, Canto 11, p. ,^[5]

     […] and likewise on her hed

     A Chapelet of sundry flowers she wore,

     From vnder which the deawy humour shed,

     Did tricle downe her haire, like to the hore

     Congealed litle drops, which doe the morne adore.

   Antonym: disdain

Derived terms

Related terms

• adorable
• adoration

Translations

Anagrams

• E-road, O'Dare, Roade, dorea, oared, oread

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.do.?e/

Noun

adore

1. energy
2. courage

Declension

Synonyms

• kemen

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

adore

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of adorer
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of adorer
3. second-person singular imperative of adorer

Anagrams

• éroda

Galician

Verb

adore

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of adorar

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French adorer (“worship, adore”).

Verb

adore

1. adore
2. worship

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.do.re/, [?äd????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.do.re/, [???d????]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?do?.re/, [ä?d?o???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?do.re/, [??d?????]

Noun

adore or ad?re n

1. ablative singular of ador

Portuguese

Verb

adore

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of adorar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of adorar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of adorar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of adorar

Romanian

Verb

adore

1. third-person singular/third-person plural present subjunctive of adora

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?do?e/, [a?ð?o.?e]

Verb

adore

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of adorar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of adorar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of adorar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of adorar.