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# idolater

«idolater» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who worships an idol, a statue or image treated…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (idolaters)

### meaning for a pupil

(old use) A person who worships an idol, a statue or image treated as a god. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idolater/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales and old stories, the people of a town who worship false gods, often seen as wrong by the hero

### examples

- The prince stayed in the town of the idolaters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idolater/#x1)
- Old stories call people who bowed to statues idolaters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idolater/#x2)
- The hero warned the idolaters to stop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idolater/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «idolater» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idolater/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.