English▸ noun an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship.
▪ a person or thing that is greatly admired, loved, or revered:
movie idol Robert Redford.
– ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French idole, from Latin idolum ‘image, form’ (used in ecclesiastical Latin in the sense ‘idol’), from Greek eidōlon, from eidos ‘form, shape’.