WORSHIPPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does worshipper mean? 

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

1. a person who has religious faith

2. someone who admires too much to recognize faults

  Familiarity information: WORSHIPPER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORSHIPPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who has religious faith

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

believer; worshiper; worshipper

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

religious person (a person who manifests devotion to a deity)

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

theist (one who believes in the existence of a god or gods)

devil worshiper (someone who worships devils)

monotheist (a believer in one god)

mystic; religious mystic (someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension)

numerologist (a believer in numerology)

pantheist (someone who believes that God and the universe are the same)

pilgrim (someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion)

sun worshiper (someone who worships the sun)

theosophist (a believer in theosophy)

Holonyms ("worshipper" is a member of...):

denomination (a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith)

Derivation:

worship (show devotion to (a deity))

worship (attend religious services)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who admires too much to recognize faults

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

worshiper; worshipper

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

admirer; adorer (someone who admires a young woman)

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

hero worshiper; hero worshipper (someone who worships heroes)

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

“You know what I told you about time-servers and wealth-worshippers?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The true voodoo-worshipper attempts nothing of importance without certain sacrifices which are intended to propitiate his unclean gods.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As they passed the old church, which stood upon a mound at the left-hand side of the village street the door was flung open, and a stream of worshippers wound down the sloping path, coming from the morning mass, all chattering like a cloud of jays.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)