WORSHIP (worshipped, worshipping)

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Irregular inflected forms: worshipped    , worshipping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does worship mean? 

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

1. the activity of worshipping

2. a feeling of profound love and admiration

  Familiarity information: WORSHIP used as a noun is rare.

• WORSHIP (verb)
  The verb WORSHIP has 3 senses:

1. love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol

2. show devotion to (a deity)

3. attend religious services

  Familiarity information: WORSHIP used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of worshipping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

activity (any specific behavior)

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

ancestor worship (worship of ancestors)

praise (offering words of homage as an act of worship)

salaah; salaat; salah; salat (the second pillar of Islam is prayer; a prescribed liturgy performed five times a day (preferably in a mosque) and oriented toward Mecca)

moon-worship; selenolatry (the worship of the moon)

monolatry (the worship of a single god but without claiming that it is the only god)

animal-worship; zoolatry (the worship of animals)

heliolatry; sun-worship (the worship of the sun)

hagiolatry; hierolatry (the worship of saints)

fire-worship; pyrolatry (the worship of fire)

demonolatry; devil-worship; diabolatry (the acts or rites of worshiping devils)

cosmolatry (the worship of the cosmos)

astrolatry; worship of heavenly bodies (the worship of planets or stars)

arborolatry; tree-worship (the worship of trees)

place-worship; topolatry (the worship of places)

miracle-worship; thaumatolatry (the worship of miracles)

lordolatry (the worship of a lord because of his rank or title)

gynaeolatry; gyneolatry; woman-worship (the worship of women)

anthropolatry; worship of man (the worship of human beings)

autolatry; idiolatry; self-worship (the worship of yourself)

cultism; devotion; veneration (religious zeal; the willingness to serve God)

idol worship; idolatry (the worship of idols; the worship of physical objects or images as gods)

adoration; latria (the worship given to God alone)

idolisation; idolization (the act of worshiping blindly and to excess)

prayer; supplication (the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving))

apotheosis; deification; exaltation (the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god))

Derivation:

worship (attend religious services)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A feeling of profound love and admiration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

adoration; worship

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

love (a strong positive emotion of regard and affection)

Derivation:

worship (love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol)

• WORSHIP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they worship    ... he / she / it worships   
Past simple: worshiped    / worshipped   
Past participle: worshiped    / worshipped   
-ing form: worshiping    / worshipping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

hero-worship; idolise; idolize; revere; worship

Context example:

Many teenagers idolized the Beatles

Hypernyms (to "worship" is one way to...):

adore (love intensely)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "worship"):

drool over; slobber over (envy without restraint)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot worship Sue

Derivation:

worship (a feeling of profound love and admiration)

worshiper; worshipper (someone who admires too much to recognize faults)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Show devotion to (a deity)

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

Many Hindus worship Shiva

Hypernyms (to "worship" is one way to...):

fear; revere; reverence; venerate (regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of)

Domain category:

faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

worshiper; worshipper (a person who has religious faith)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Attend religious services

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

They worship in the traditional manner

Hypernyms (to "worship" is one way to...):

attend; go to (be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "worship"):

offer; offer up (present as an act of worship)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

worship (the activity of worshipping)

worshiper; worshipper (a person who has religious faith)

 Context examples 

I worship the eldest Miss Larkins.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have worshipped You long and afar off.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But he worships me, I know.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His love partook of the nature of worship, dumb, inarticulate, a silent adoration.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Yes,” Mugridge was saying, an’ wot does ’is worship do but give me two years in Reading.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Only the last words of the worship were audible.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Jo went prepared to bow down and adore the mighty ones whom she had worshiped with youthful enthusiasm afar off.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It is he who sees and worships your merit the strongest, who loves you most devotedly, that has the best right to a return.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In a situational report of NDRRMC, Wednesday's tremor damaged 143 buildings including 70 schools, 40 houses, seven health facilities, two worshiping areas, and ten commercial buildings.

(Aftershocks increase death toll of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Philippines, Wikinews)

A building for public worship or religious services.

(Church, NCI Thesaurus)