adore

From Middle English *adoren, aouren, from Old French adorer, aorer, from Latin adōrō (“I pray to”), from ad (“to”) + ōrō (“I speak”).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ədôʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈdɔː/
• (General American) enPR: ədôrʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈdoɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ədōrʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈdo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /əˈdoə̯/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: adore

adore (third-person singular simple present adores, present participle adoring, simple past and past participle adored)

1. 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

2. 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 V, 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

3. 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. […]"

4. (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.

• adorable
• adoration

• O'Dare, Roade, dorea, oread, oared, Rodea, E-road

From earlier ardore, from Latin ardōrem.

• IPA^(key): /adoɾe/ [a.ð̞o.ɾe]

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• Rhymes: -oɾe, -e
• Hyphenation: a‧do‧re

adore inan

1. energy, vital force

   Synonym: kemen

2. courage

• “adore”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “adore”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʁ

adore

1. inflection of adorer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• éroda

adore

1. inflection of adorar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From French adorer (“worship, adore”).

• IPA^(key): /a.do.ɣe/

adore

1. adore
2. worship

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.dɔ.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.d̪o.re]
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈdoː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈd̪ɔː.re]

adore or adōre n

1. ablative singular of ador

adore

1. inflection of adorar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

adore

1. third-person singular/third-person plural present subjunctive of adora

• IPA^(key): /aˈdoɾe/ [aˈð̞o.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -oɾe
• Syllabification: a‧do‧re

adore

1. inflection of adorar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative