worship Definition

worship
verb worshipped, worshipping

tr & intr
1. To honour (God or a god) with praise, prayer, hymns, etc.

Thesaurus: praise, laud, honour.
2. To love or admire someone or something, especially blindly; to idolise them or it.

Thesaurus: adore, adulate, exalt, idolize, venerate, love, glorify, put on a pedestal, revere; Antonym: despise.
3. To glorify or exalt (material things, eg money).

noun

1a. The activity of worshipping;

Thesaurus: praise, adoration, exaltation, honour, love, reverence, homage, glorification, deification, laudation, prayer; Antonym: vilification.
1b. The worship itself.
2. A religious service in which God or a god is honoured.

Example: morning worship
3. The title used to address or refer to a mayor or magistrate, usually in the form of His or Her Worship or Your Worship.

Derivative: worshipper
noun

Someone who worships God or a god
Thesaurus: devotionist, churchgoer, communicant, congregant, supplicant, celebrant, pilgrim; Antonym: atheist, agnostic, skeptic.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon weorthscipe, meaning ‘worthship'.