Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense hero-worships, present participle hero-worshipping, past tense, past participle hero-worshippedlanguage note: The noun is also spelled hero worship.
1. uncountable noun
Hero-worship is a very great admiration of someone and a belief that they are special or perfect.
The lead singer inspires old-fashioned hero-worship.
Synonyms: admiration, idolization, adulation, adoration More Synonyms of hero worship
2. verb
If you hero-worship someone, you admire them a great deal and think they are special or perfect.
He was amused by the way younger actors started to hero-worship and copy him. [VERB noun]
hero worship in British English
noun
1.
admiration for heroes or idealized persons
2.
worship by the ancient Greeks and Romans of heroes
verbhero-worship, -ships, -shipping, -shippedWord forms: US-ships, -shiping or -shiped
3. (transitive)
to feel admiration or adulation for
Derived forms
hero-worshipper (ˈhero-ˌworshipper)
noun
hero-worship in British English
(ˈhɪərəʊˌwɜːʃɪp)
verb(transitive)
to feel admiration or adulation for (someone); to think that they are special or perfect, esp in an exaggerated way
He was amused by the way younger actors started to hero-worship and copy him.
hero worship in American English
great or excessive reverence or admiration for heroes or other persons
Derived forms
hero-worship (ˈheˌro-worship)
verb transitive
hero-worshiper (ˈheˌro-worshiper)
noun
Examples of 'hero worship' in a sentence
hero worship
Hero worship is part of growing up, and indeed there is no pressing need to grow out of it completely.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In a world where the security staff are famous enough to warrant mass hysteria, you have to wonder if all this hero worship is healthy.
The Sun (2009)
Like his hero-worship of me, his success was part of my reward.
Howatch, Susan ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
There was a tinge of hero-worship in his attitude which might have evaporated had he realized he would never see Leo again.
St. James, Ian FINAL RESORT
`Of course your fanatical attempts to make me happy sprang not from hero-worship but from insecurity.