Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable)An act of religious worship.

    Anbetung

    поклоне́ниеpoklonénije

    поклоні́нняpoklonínnja

    the act of admiring strongly

  2. (uncountable)Admiration or esteem.

    восхище́ниеvosxiščénije

    a feeling of profound love and admiration

  3. (uncountable)The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination; an intense love sometimes bordering on veneration or infatuation.

    Because of Gerald's adoration for Katie, he was blind to her flaws.

    обожа́ниеobožánije

    захо́пленняzaxóplennja, за́хватzáxvat

  4. (countable, historical, uncountable)The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).

  5. (countable, uncountable)Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. What's the difference between love and adoration?

    ruЧем любовь отличается от обожания?

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  2. I looked at the sweet child with adoration.

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  3. The “smiling face with heart-eyes” conveys enthusiastic feelings of love, infatuation, and adoration for someone.

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  4. Fadil's love and adoration only fed Layla's ego.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
an act of religious worship:
the act of adoring:
Русский
By meaning 3
an act of religious worship:
admiration or esteem:
the act of adoring:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
an act of religious worship:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French adoration, from Latin adōrātiō, adōrātiōnem (“worship, adorati

Borrowed from Middle French adoration, from Latin adōrātiō, adōrātiōnem (“worship, adoration”), from adōrō (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ōrō (“beg”).

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Forms

plural: adorations
Singularadoration
Pluraladorations

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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