APOTHEOSIS (apotheoses)

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Irregular inflected form: apotheoses   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does apotheosis mean? 

• APOTHEOSIS (noun)
  The noun APOTHEOSIS has 2 senses:

1. model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

2. the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god)

  Familiarity information: APOTHEOSIS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APOTHEOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

apotheosis; ideal; nonesuch; nonpareil; nonsuch; paragon; saint

Hypernyms ("apotheosis" is a kind of...):

model; role model (someone worthy of imitation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apotheosis"):

crackerjack; jimdandy; jimhickey (someone excellent of their kind)

class act (someone who shows impressive and stylish excellence)

humdinger (someone of remarkable excellence)

Derivation:

apotheosise; apotheosize (deify or glorify)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The elevation of a person (as to the status of a god)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

apotheosis; deification; exaltation

Hypernyms ("apotheosis" is a kind of...):

worship (the activity of worshipping)

 Context examples 

He had entitled the story Adventure, and it was the apotheosis of adventure—not of the adventure of the storybooks, but of real adventure, the savage taskmaster, awful of punishment and awful of reward, faithless and whimsical, demanding terrible patience and heartbreaking days and nights of toil, offering the blazing sunlight glory or dark death at the end of thirst and famine or of the long drag and monstrous delirium of rotting fever, through blood and sweat and stinging insects leading up by long chains of petty and ignoble contacts to royal culminations and lordly achievements.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)