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hero worship n 1. admiration for heroes or idealized persons 2. (Historical Terms) worship by the ancient Greeks and Romans of heroes vb hero-worship, -ships, -shipping, -shipped US, -ships -shiping, -shiped
(tr) to feel admiration or adulation for hero-worshipper n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Translations hero worship n → Verehrung f (→ of +gen); (in ancient tribe etc) → Heldenverehrung f; (of pop star etc) → Schwärmerei f → (of für); the hero worship of a boy for his older brother → die blinde Bewunderung eines Jungen für seinen älteren Bruder How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Holding forth to an unimpressed crow and squirrel ("He's getting a fat head") and a hero-worshipping young groundhog ("Shush On the flipside, comic books themselves have been foundering, attracting mainly the kind of hardcore, hero-worshipping collectors typified by The Simpsons' creepy Comic Book Guy. But here the self-image is deliberately made ugly because Carlyle wanted to criticize his society of laissez-faire and utilitarianism by contrasting it with the ideal of the Arab hero and his hero-worshipping people. |
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