rock idoln.1
/ˈrɒk ˌʌɪdl/, U.S. /ˈrɑk ˌaɪd(ə)l/ A stone figure worshipped, or believed to have been worshipped, as a god.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol > stone
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rock idol1754
1754 W. Borlase Observ. Antiq. Cornwall 161 Of Rock Idols.
1763 J. Hutchins in W. C. Lukis Mem. W. Stukeley (1883) II. 128 I am apt to think it was a rock idol.
?1800 Biogr. Hist. Literary & Sci. Mag. 1799 II. iv. 99 He shews much judgment and sagacity in his account of druidical worship, and proves the absurdity of Dr. Borlase's rock idols.
1853 Home Friend 3 173 Their singular shape and position have led to the conjecture that they once formed rock idols in those dark ages.
1912 Times 27 Dec. 10/5 The large stone, it seemed, had been selected by the Druids as one of their rock idols.
1996 Garden Hist. 24 68 Adjacent stands a stone pyramid: a rock idol, like the white pyramid which represented Venus in Paphos.
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rock idoln.2
/ˈrɒk ˌʌɪdl/, U.S. /ˈrɑk ˌaɪd(ə)l/ = rock star n. 1.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > pop musician > types of
hard rocker1942
bebopper1946
skiffler1948
bopper1951
rock 'n' roller1955
rockabilly1956
rock star1957
rocker1958
rock idol1958
rockster1960
funkster1963
country rocker1964
punk rocker1972
punk1976
punkster1976
cock-rocker1977
MC1979
rapper1979
thrasher1979
New Romantic1980
prog rocker1980
neo-punk1981
pomp rocker1981
rapster1981
rockist1981
hip-hopper1982
scratcher1982
skanker1983
pop tart1984
trash rocker1984
techno-head1985
Goth1986
Britpopper1989
gangsta1989
gangster rapper1989
popstrel1989
gangsta rapper1990
house-head1990
grunger1991
shoegazer1991
junglist1992
trip-hopper1993
1958 Los Angeles Times 16 Jan. ii. 4/4 Which current rock idol is about to roll over allowances with the cost of his latest record.
1991 Sky Mag. Feb. 66/1 Subsequent rock idols have emulated Morrison's drug excesses.
2007 G. R. Shell & M. Moussa Art of Woo v. 114 Movie stars and rock idols frequently adopt pet social causes to burnish their images.
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