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hero worship
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hero worship
n.
Intense or excessive admiration for a hero or a person regarded as a hero.

hero worship
Noun
admiration for heroes or idealized people
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.hero worship - admiration for great men (or their memory)
admiration, esteem - a feeling of delighted approval and liking
Translations
hero worship nveneración f
hero worship nculte m (du héros)
hero worship hero nHeldenverehrung f
hero worship ndivismo


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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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