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# idolatry

«idolatry» in Mova's school dictionary: **Worshipping idols, meaning statues or objects treated as…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (idolatry; uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (Bible, church) Worshipping idols, meaning statues or objects treated as gods, which the Bible forbids. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idolatry/#m1)

2) Loving or admiring something or someone far too much, as if it were a god. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idolatry/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In Bible lessons it appears in the story of the golden calf and in the Ten Commandments: «You shall have no other gods before me». Christians believe putting money, fame or anything above God is a kind of idolatry. In everyday talk it means extreme admiration. Phrases: guilty of idolatry, the sin of idolatry.

### examples

- In the Bible, the Israelites fell into idolatry when they worshipped the golden calf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idolatry/#x1)
- The Ten Commandments forbid idolatry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idolatry/#x2)
- Christians believe loving money more than God is a kind of idolatry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idolatry/#x3)
- The prophets warned the people against idolatry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idolatry/#x4)
- Some people's love of football is almost idolatry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/idolatry/#x5)

### note

Uncountable. Related: idol (a statue worshipped as a god; also a famous star), idolise/idolize (to admire very much). Pronounced eye-DOL-a-tree.

### In the corpora

- [For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.406/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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