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idolater

noun
idol·​a·​ter | \ Ä«-ˈdä-lÉ™-tÉ™r How to pronounce idolater (audio) \
variants: or idolator

Definition of idolater

1 : a worshipper of idols
2 : a person that admires intensely and often blindly one that is not usually a subject of worship
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Synonyms for idolater

Synonyms

gentile, heathen, pagan

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Examples of idolater in a Sentence

by and large the American colonists were not particularly tolerant of those who were regarded as idolaters

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 His Wagner book, which placed its subject in the larger intellectual context of his times, infuriated idolaters, for whom the master could do no wrong. — Margalit Fox, New York Times, "Robert W. Gutman, whose influential biographies of Wagner and," 18 May 2016

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First Known Use of idolater

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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