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wor·ship

(wûr′shĭp)

a. The reverent love and devotion accorded a deity, an idol, or a sacred object.

b. The ceremonies, prayers, or other religious forms by which this love is expressed: a chapel where worship is held daily.

2. Ardent admiration or love; adoration: the worship of celebrities.

3. often Worship Chiefly British Used as a form of address for magistrates, mayors, and certain other dignitaries: Your Worship.

v. wor·shiped, wor·ship·ing, wor·ships or wor·shipped or wor·ship·ping

v.tr.

1. To honor and love as a deity.

2. To regard with ardent or adoring esteem or devotion. See Synonyms at revere¹.

v.intr.

To participate in religious rites of worship.

[Middle English worshipe, worthiness, honor, from Old English weorthscipe : weorth, worth; see worth¹ + -scipe, -ship.]

wor′ship·er, wor′ship·per n.

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Noun	1.	worshipper - a person who has religious faith believer, worshiper denomination - a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith religious person - a person who manifests devotion to a deity theist - one who believes in the existence of a god or gods devil worshiper - someone who worships devils monotheist - a believer in one god mystic, religious mystic - someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension numerologist - a believer in numerology pantheist - someone who believes that God and the universe are the same pilgrim - someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion sun worshiper - someone who worships the sun theosophist - a believer in theosophy
	2.	worshipper - someone who admires too much to recognize faults worshiper adorer, admirer - someone who admires a young woman; "she had many admirers" hero worshiper, hero worshipper - someone who worships heroes

Translations

عابِد

tilbedertroende

Anbeter

adorateur fidèle

istentiszteleten résztvevõ

trúmaîur

adoratore patito del sole

deltaker i gudstjeneste tilbeder

hayranibadet eden kimse

礼拜者

worshipper

worshiper (US) [ˈwɜːʃɪpə>ʳ] N → devoto/a m/f worshippers (collectively) → fieles mpl

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

worshipper

[ˈwɜː^rʃɪpə^r] n

(gen) → adorateur/trice m/f; (in church) → fidèle mf

(fig) (= enthusiast) → adorateur/trice m/f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

worshipper

n → Kirchgänger(in) m(f); worshipper of Baal → Baalsverehrer(in) m(f); sun worshipper → Sonnenanbeter(in) m(f); he was a lifelong worshipper at this church → er ist sein Leben lang hier zur Kirche gegangen; to be a worshipper of wealth → das Geld anbeten

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

worshipper

[ˈwɜːʃɪpəʳ] n → adoratore/trice; (in church) → fedele m/f, devoto/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

worship

(ˈwəːʃip) – past tense, past participle ˈworshipped , (American) ˈworshiped – verb

1. to pay great honour to. to worship God.

2. to love or admire very greatly. She worships her older brother.

noun

the act of worshipping. A church is a place of worship; the worship of God / of money.

ˈworshipper noun

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"I'm a worshipper of the great god Whim too, and close by here I have a little summer-house, full of books and fishing-lines and other childishness, where, when my whim is to be lonely, I come and play at solitude.

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Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable.

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Here was the whole history of the situation in which Diana had descended too unexpectedly on her worshipper. It was mortifying.

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The Worshipful and the Worshipper then passed on together until they parted, with many ceremonies, at the Worshipful's door; even then the Worshipper carried his hat under his arm, and gave his streaming white hair to the breeze.

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"My name," replied the Woman, "is Truth; and I live in the desert in order to be near my worshippers when they are driven from among their fellows.

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Shortly afterwards the Idol's worshippers held a great religious ceremony at the base of his pedestal, and as a part of the rites the Missionary was roasted whole.

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Monseigneur was in his inner room, his sanctuary of sanctuaries, the Holiest of Holiests to the crowd of worshippers in the suite of rooms without.

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He had fallen into the hands of descendants of the ancient sun worshippers. His seeming rescue by a votaress of the high priestess of the sun had been but a part of the mimicry of their heathen ceremony--the sun looking down upon him through the opening at the top of the court had claimed him as his own, and the priestess had come from the inner temple to save him from the polluting hands of worldlings--to save him as a human offering to their flaming deity.

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Grose and Flora had passed into the church, the other worshippers had followed, and we were, for the minute, alone among the old, thick graves.

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As it seemed to me at the time, such a grand embodiment of adoration of the gods was never beheld, even in Persia, the home of the fire worshippers. As Ptolemy Philopater testified of the African elephant, I then testified of the whale, pronouncing him the most devout of all beings.

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"Verily," replied the Pharisee; "let us hasten: for this generosity in the heathen is unwonted; and fickle-mindedness has ever been an attribute of the worshippers of Baal."

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Moore, I could manage better; and when my father read "Lalla Rookh" to my mother I sat up to listen, and entered into all the woes of Iran in the story of the "Fire Worshippers." I drew the line at the "Veiled Prophet of Khorassan," though I had some sense of the humor of the poet's conception of the critic in "Fadladeen." But I liked Scott's poems far better, and got from Ispahan to Edinburgh with a glad alacrity of fancy.