worship
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
worship/ˈwɜːʃɪp/
▶noun
- 1 the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity.
■ religious rites and ceremonies.
- 2 great admiration or devotion.
- 3 (His/Your Worship) chiefly Brit. a title of respect used chiefly to or of a magistrate or mayor.
- 4 archaic honour given in recognition of merit.
- 1 show reverence and adoration for (a deity).
- 2 feel great admiration or devotion for.
– derivatives
worshipper noun.
worshipper noun.
'worship' also found in these Oxford entries:
adore
- Anglo-Catholicism
- animalism
- Ave Maria
- bhakti
- black mass
- cantor
- ceremony
- chapel
- church
- communion
- congregation
- cult
- cultus
- deify
- demonolatry
- devotion
- diabolism
- directory
- divine service
- genuflect
- ghusl
- glorify
- glory
- glossolalia
- gurdwara
- hagiolatry
- Hare Krishna
- hero worship
- Hinduism
- house of God
- iconoclast
- iconolatry
- idol
- idolatry
- jealous
- Krishnaism
- latria
- -latry
- liturgical
- liturgy
- Mammon
- Mariolatry
- meeting house
- menorah
- minyan
- monolatry
- mosque
- naturism
- novena
