idol
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (3)
- a material effigy that is worshipped“thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image”“money was his god”Synonyms: graven imagegod
- someone who is adored blindly and excessivelySynonyms: matinee idol
- an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a conceptSynonyms: paragonperfectionbeau ideal
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Idol \I"dol\, n. [OE. idole, F. idole, L. idolum, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? that which is seen, the form, shape, figure, fr. ? to see. See Wit, and cf. Eidolon.]
1.An image or representation of anything. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Do her adore with sacred reverence, As th' idol of her maker's great magnificence.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]
2.An image of a divinity; a representation or symbol of a deity or any other being or thing, made or used as an object of worship; a similitude of a false god. [1913 Webster]
That they should not worship devils, and idols of gold.— Rev. ix. 20.[1913 Webster]
3.That on which the affections are strongly (often excessively) set; an object of passionate devotion; a person or thing greatly loved or adored. [1913 Webster]
The soldier's god and people's idol.— Denham.[1913 Webster]
4.A false notion or conception; a fallacy. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
The idols of preconceived opinion.— Coleridge.[1913 Webster]
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
IDOL
Icon-Derived Object Language. An object-oriented preprocessor for Icon.
(ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/languages/icon/idol.tar.Z).
["Programming in Idol: An Object Primer", C.L. Jeffery, U Arizona CS TR #90-10].