adore
See also: adoré
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English *adoren, aouren, from Old French adorer, aorer, from Latin adōrō, from ad (“to”) + ōrō (“I speak”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ədôʹ, IPA(key): /əˈdɔː/
- (General American) enPR: ədôrʹ, IPA(key): /əˈdɔɹ/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ədōrʹ, IPA(key): /əˈdo(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /əˈdoə̯/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: adore
VerbEdit
adore (third-person singular simple present adores, present participle adoring, simple past and past participle adored)
- To worship.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,[1]
- Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?
- 1758, Tobias Smollett, A Complete History of England, London: James Rivington and James Fletcher, 3rd edition, Volume 6, Book 8, “William III,” p. 29,[2]
- [James] was met at the castle-gate by a procession of […] bishops and priests in their pontificals, bearing the host, which he publicly adored.
- 1852, Frederick Oakeley (translator), “O Come, All Ye Faithful” in Francis H. Murray, A Hymnal for Use in the English Church,[3]
- Come and behold him
- Born the King of Angels:
- O come, let us adore Him,
- Christ the Lord.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,[1]
- To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
- It is obvious to everyone that Gerry adores Heather.
- 1849, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Volume I, Chapter 5, p. 388,[4]
- The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth.
- To be very fond of.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"
- (obsolete) To adorn.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 4, Canto 11, p. ,[5]
- […] and likewise on her hed
- A Chapelet of sundry flowers she wore,
- From vnder which the deawy humour shed,
- Did tricle downe her haire, like to the hore
- Congealed litle drops, which doe the morne adore.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 4, Canto 11, p. ,[5]
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TranslationsEdit
worship
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love with entire heart and soul
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adore
DeclensionEdit
(inanimate noun) declension of adore
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VerbEdit
adore
- first-person singular present indicative of adorer
- third-person singular present indicative of adorer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of adorer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of adorer
- second-person singular imperative of adorer
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GalicianEdit
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adore
- first-person singular present subjunctive of adorar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of adorar
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PortugueseEdit
VerbEdit
adore
- first-person singular present subjunctive of adorar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of adorar
- first-person singular imperative of adorar
- third-person singular imperative of adorar
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adore