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单词 idolaters
释义

idolater

noun

idol·​a·​ter ī-ˈdä-lə-tər How to pronounce idolater (audio)
variants or idolator
1
: a worshipper of idols
2
: a person that admires intensely and often blindly one that is not usually a subject of worship

Synonyms

  • gentile
  • heathen
  • pagan
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Example Sentences

an ancient civilization of pantheists and idolaters
Recent Examples on the Web The personification of those enthusiasms was the composer John Cage—a student of Schoenberg, a devotee of Eastern thought, and an idolater of Duchamp. Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022 Carpenter, like Valenti, was an idolater, but the journalists had the same feeling. Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021 His Wagner book, which placed its subject in the larger intellectual context of his times, infuriated idolaters, for whom the master could do no wrong. Margalit Fox, New York Times, 18 May 2016

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

idolaters

noun

variants or idolators
plural of idolater
as in pagans
a person who does not worship the God of the Bible an ancient civilization of pantheists and idolaters

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • pagans
  • gentiles
  • atheists
  • heathen
  • infidels
  • unbelievers
  • heathens
  • nonbelievers
  • misbelievers
  • non-Muslims
  • non-Christians
  • polytheists
  • non-Jews
  • miscreants
  • giaours
  • neo-pagans

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • Christians
  • Jews
  • Muslims
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