idolater en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌaɪˈdɑlətəɹ/ (US)
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Etymology
From Middle English ydolatrer, from Middle French idolatre, from Latin idololatra. Displaced native Old English dēofolġielda (literally “devil worshiper”).
Meanings
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One who worships idols; (historical) a pagan.
You who can smash the idols, do so with a good courage; but do not be too fierce with the idolaters,—they worship the best thing they know.
1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 5:9-12:[T]he state of idolaters is two ways miserable: first, in that which they worship they find no succour; and secondly, at his hands, whom they ought to serve, there is no other thing to be looked for but the effects of most just displeasure, the withdrawing of grace, dereliction in this world, and in the world to come confusion.
[1594], Richard Hooker, “Their pretenſe that would haue Churches vtterly razed”, in J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 209:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| idolaters | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| idolatress | Gender=Fem | lexicographic | |
| idolator | alternative | lexicographic |
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Translations (47)
it idolatra (one who worships idols) · ca idòlatra (one who worships idols) · pl bałwochwalca (one who worships idols) · tr putperest (one who worships idols) · mk идолопоклоник (one who worships idols) · fa بتپرست (one who worships idols) · cs modlář (one who worships idols) · enm ydolatrer (one who worships idols) · sv avgudadyrkare (one who worships idols) · be ідалапакло́ннік (one who worships idols) · ga íoladhraitheoir (one who worships idols) · be балвахва́л (one who worships idols) · de Götzenanbeter (one who worships idols) · cmn 偶像崇拜者 (one who worships idols) · de Götzendiener (one who worships idols) · uk ідолопокло́нник (one who worships idols) · ky бутпарас (one who worships idols) · hu bálványimádó (one who worships idols) · fr idolâtre (one who worships idols) · be ідалапакло́нніца (one who worships idols) · fi epäjumalanpalvoja (one who worships idols) · ug بۇتپەرەس (one who worships idols) · uz butparast (one who worships idols) · kk пұтқа табынушы (one who worships idols) · ga íoltóir (one who worships idols) · hy կռապաշտ (one who worships idols) · kk пұтпарас (one who worships idols) · eo idolano (one who worships idols) · uk ідолові́рець (one who worships idols) · cs modloslužebník (one who worships idols) · sk modloslužobník (one who worships idols) · az bütpərəst (one who worships idols) · tg бутпараст (one who worships idols) · oc idolatra (one who worships idols) · ru идолопокло́нник (one who worships idols) · bg идолопокло́нник (one who worships idols) · es idólatra (one who worships idols) · el ειδωλολάτρης (one who worships idols) · he עובד כוכבים ומזלות (one who worships idols) · tk butparaz (one who worships idols) · grc εἰδωλολάτρης (one who worships idols) · ro idolatru (one who worships idols) · ang dēofolġielda (one who worships idols) · sk modlár (one who worships idols) · fi kuvainpalvoja (one who worships idols) · ar وَثَنِيّ (one who worships idols) · he עכו״ם (one who worships idols)