idol
part of speech
noun (an idol, idols)
meaning for a pupil
1) An idol is a person who is greatly admired and loved by many people, such as a pop star or sports star. tree →
2) (religion, Bible) An idol is a statue or picture that is worshipped as a god; the Bible forbids worshipping idols. tree →
3) Anything treated as more important than it should be: «Money became his idol». tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life children have idols such as footballers and singers; TV shows pick «pop idols». In religious education, the Ten Commandments say not to make or worship idols, and the golden calf story shows the Israelites worshipping one. Phrases: «a pop idol», «my childhood idol», «worship idols», «a golden idol».
examples
- My idol is a famous footballer. tree →
- The singer was the idol of millions of fans. tree →
- The Israelites made a golden calf as an idol. tree →
- The Ten Commandments forbid worshipping idols. tree →
- The explorer found a stone idol in the jungle temple. tree →
- Don't make money your idol. tree →
- She met her idol and got an autograph. tree →
- The long, colored tapestry, on which she and her maidens had worked pictures of their idols, Odin, Thor, and Friga, was hung up. tree →
note
Countable; «an idol». Homophone: «idle» (lazy, not working) sounds the same. Related: idolise (to admire greatly), idolatry (worship of idols).
In the corpora
- Turn ye not unto the idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
- and ye have seen their detestable things, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were with them —
- And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them: 'Ye shall not do this thing';
- And the idols shall utterly pass away.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «idol» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.