hero-worship

What does hero-worship mean?

hero-worship means "love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol".

How many syllables are in hero-worship?

hero-worship has 4 syllables and divides as he-ro--wor-ship under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hero-worship?

Close synonyms include idolize, idolise, worship, revere. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hero-worship come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.