adore
See also: adoré
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English *adoren, aouren, from Old French adorer, aorer, from Latin adōrō (“I pray to”), from ad (“to”) + ōrō (“I speak”).
Pronunciation edit
- (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
Verb edit
adore (third-person singular simple present adores, present participle adoring, simple past and past participle adored)
- To worship.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
- 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,[1]
- [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,[2]
- Come and behold him
- Born the King of Angels:
- O come, let us adore Him,
- Christ the Lord.
- Antonym: disdain
- 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 Babington Macaulay, chapter 5, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 388:
- The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth.
- Antonym: disdain
- To be very fond of.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- "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, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] 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.
- Antonym: disdain
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worship
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love with entire heart and soul
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Etymology edit
From earlier ardore, from Latin ardōrem.
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Noun edit
adore inan
- energy, vital force
- Synonym: kemen
- courage
Declension edit
Declension of adore (inanimate, ending in vowel)
indefinite | singular | plural | |
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absolutive | adore | adorea | adoreak |
ergative | adorek | adoreak | adoreek |
dative | adoreri | adoreari | adoreei |
genitive | adoreren | adorearen | adoreen |
comitative | adorerekin | adorearekin | adoreekin |
causative | adorerengatik | adorearengatik | adoreengatik |
benefactive | adorerentzat | adorearentzat | adoreentzat |
instrumental | adorez | adoreaz | adoreez |
inessive | adoretan | adorean | adoreetan |
locative | adoretako | adoreko | adoreetako |
allative | adoretara | adorera | adoreetara |
terminative | adoretaraino | adoreraino | adoreetaraino |
directive | adoretarantz | adorerantz | adoreetarantz |
destinative | adoretarako | adorerako | adoreetarako |
ablative | adoretatik | adoretik | adoreetatik |
partitive | adorerik | — | — |
prolative | adoretzat | — | — |
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adore
- inflection of adorer:
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adore
- inflection of adorar:
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Etymology edit
From French adorer (“worship, adore”).
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adore
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Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.do.re/, [ˈäd̪ɔrɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.do.re/, [ˈäːd̪ore]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈdoː.re/, [äˈd̪oːrɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈdo.re/, [äˈd̪ɔːre]
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adore or adōre n
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adore
- inflection of adorar:
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adore
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adore
- inflection of adorar: