An image or object (as a plant or an animal) worshipped as symbolizing or constituting the visible habitation of a divinity or as itself possessing…

A portrait, statue, or other representation of a person or thing; spec. an image of God, or a god.

Applied contemptuously to an idol or a sacred image. Chiefly in the phrase stocks and stones = ‘gods of wood and stone’.

A false god; an image of a false god, an idol. Obsolete.

An idol. Cf. mammet, n. Obsolete.

gen. (A representation of) a false god; an idol. Cf. mammet, n. Obsolete.

An image or similitude of a deity or divinity, used as an object of worship: applied to those worshipped by pagans, whence, in scriptural…

An image (of a god, etc.) to which honour or worship is rendered.

Originally: any small monkey. Subsequently: any of several small tropical Central and South American monkeys which together with tamarins constitute…

An idol. Obsolete.

depreciative. An idolatrous image, an idol; any material object that is worshipped. Cf. poppet, n. 2c.

depreciative. An idolatrous object or image, an idol; (hence) any material object which is worshipped. Cf. puppet, n. 2a. Obsolete.

contemptuously. An idol, a ‘stock’.

transferred. An idol, or object of idolatrous devotion.

Usually in form pagod. In South and South-East Asia: an image or carving of a god; an idol. Also: a decorative figure carved in the style of such an…

= pagoda, n. 2a.

In central Africa, esp. in the former kingdom of Loango (now largely in south-western Congo): an idol.

a false idol.

something insubstantial or illusory.

An idol, a heathen god. Also: a heraldic dragon associated with such an idol or god.

(a) a figurine or other object venerated as part of a system of ritual or worship; (b) a person, esp. a writer or other artist, with a strong…