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noun

plural of worship
as in adorations
excessive admiration of or devotion to a person the worship of professional athletes who often turn out to be all too fallible

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worships

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verb

present tense third-person singular of worship
1
as in venerates
to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power the ancient Greeks worshipped many different gods

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2
as in loves
to feel passion, devotion, or tenderness for the new father worships his baby daughter, and would do anything for her

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3
as in adores
to love or admire too much thought that some of her fellow senior citizens worshipped the old days too much, observing that they weren't all good

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for worships
  1. adulations
  2. venerates
  3. loves
  4. adores
  5. idolatries
  6. reveres
Noun
  • But those self-adulations are often coupled with warnings that economic development success doesn’t happen by accident and can quickly slip away.
    — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The adulations heaped upon me at this point are getting nauseating.
    — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026
Definition of adulations
Verb
  • Kin Coedel collaborated with Meti and Hijra women in Nepal in the creation of Between Reverence and Refusal, giving them recognition and exposing the paradox of a culture that venerates femininity in myth but doesn’t acknowledge those who embody it in everyday life.
    — Vogue, Vogue, 1 June 2026
  • Redemptive suffering Shared sorrow is a key part of Iran’s Twelver Shiite identity, which venerates the Prophet Muhammad’s family through daughter Fatima and cousin and son-in-law, Ali.
    — Mary Thurlkill, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
Definition of venerates
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  • Everybody loves ranch dressing Of all the American foods that caught on with foreigners during the World Cup — from gas stations like Buc-ees to diners like Waffle House — perhaps no singular item excited soccer fans as much as ranch dressing.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 19 July 2026
  • Lamine Yamal and … Yamal is the teenage superstar everyone knows and loves.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 18 July 2026
Definition of loves
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  • Crescent bags are a seamless step up from your standard crossbody, and my mom adores the shape.
    — Annie Blackman, InStyle, 16 July 2026
  • From musty star maps to ratty psychics, the movie so adores Los Angeles that Thomas Lennon’s hair stylist character is a riff on local billboard king Chaz Dean.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Definition of adores
Noun
  • As a cipher, the Discobolus can either represent Pollak’s humanistic ethos of a cosmopolitan society or the idolatries of Hitler’s blood-and-soil fascism.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
Definition of idolatries
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  • The South reveres hydrangeas for their long-lasting blooms.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 23 June 2026
  • Like many small children, my daughter reveres garbage trucks.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
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