idolater

idolater

English

Alternative forms

• idolator (chiefly British)

Etymology

From French idolatre, from Latin idololatra.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌaɪˈdɑlətəɹ/

Noun

idolater (plural idolaters) (female idolatress)

1. One who worships idols; (historical) a pagan.
   • Bible, 1 Corinthians 5:9-12 KJV

     I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

Related terms

• idol
• idolatry

Translations

one who worships idols

Bulgarian: идолопоклонник m (idolopoklonnik) Catalan: idòlatra m or f Esperanto: idolano Finnish: epäjumalanpalvoja German: Götzenanbeter m, Götzenanbeterin f, Götzendiener m, Götzendienerin f Greek: ειδωλολάτρης (el) m (eidololátris), ειδωλολάτρισσα (el) f (eidololátrissa) Ancient: εἰδωλολάτρης m (eidōlolátrēs) Hebrew: עובד כוכבים ומזלות‎ (oveid kochavim ûmazalot) Irish: íoltóir m, íoladhraitheoir m

Italian: idolatra (it) m or f Kazakh: пұтпарас (putparas) Occitan: idolatra Polish: bałwochwalca (pl) m Russian: идолопокло́нник (ru) m (idolopoklónnik), идолопокло́нница (ru) f (idolopoklónnica) Spanish: idólatra (es) m or f Swedish: avgudadyrkare c Uyghur: بۇتپەرەس‎ (butperes)

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• roaldite, tailored, tailrode