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i⋅dol

  [ahyd-l]
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–noun
1. an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed.
2. Bible.
a. an image of a deity other than God.
b. the deity itself.
3. any person or thing regarded with blind admiration, adoration, or devotion: Madame Curie had been her childhood idol.
4. a mere image or semblance of something, visible but without substance, as a phantom.
5. a figment of the mind; fantasy.
6. a false conception or notion; fallacy.
Origin:
1200–50; ME < LL īdōlum < Gk eídōlon image, idol, deriv. of eîdos shape, form

Synonyms:
1. See image. 3. favorite, darling, pet.
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i·dol   (īd'l)   
n.  

    1. An image used as an object of worship.

    2. A false god.

  2. One that is adored, often blindly or excessively.

  3. Something visible but without substance.


[Middle English, from Old French idole, from Late Latin īdōlum, from Greek eidōlon, phantom, idol, from eidos, form; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

idol 
c.1250, "image of a deity as an object of (pagan) worship," from O.Fr. idole, from L.L. idolum "image (mental or physical), form," used in Church L. for "false god," from Gk. eidolon "appearance," later "mental image, apparition, phantom," also "material image, statue," from eidos "form" (see -oid). Figurative sense of "something idolized" is first recorded 1562. Meaning "a person so adored" is from 1591; hence idolize (1598).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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