hero worship

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   admiration for great men (or their memory)

   Broaderadmiration

Questions about hero worship

What does hero worship mean?

hero worship means "admiration for great men (or their memory)".

Is hero worship a common word?

hero worship is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.