idolater noun.
[ʌɪ'dɒlǝtǝ] Also
idolator.
LME.[from Old & mod. French idolâtre (from Proto-Romance (medieval Latin) idolatra for idololatra, -tres from Greek eidōlolatrēs: see -LATER; cf. IDOLATRY) + -ER1, or from IDOLATRY after astronomer, astronomy.]1. A person who worships idols or images of deities or divinities.
LME.■ J. Norris Idolaters..pay that Religious Worship..to something else that is not God.2. A person who idolizes or adores a person or thing.
M16.■ A. C. Swinburne The idolators of either [author] insisted..on the superior claims of their respective favorite. ■ idolatress noun (now
rare) a female idolater
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