1a. An image used as an object of worship. b. A false god. 2. One that is adored, often blindly or excessively. 3. Something visible but without substance.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French idole, from Late Latin dlum, from Greek eidlon, phantom, idol, from eidos, form. See weid- in Appendix I.
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lum, from Greek eid
