See Also: idolater(dictionary)

idolater (iou)



idolater noun. Also idolator. LME.
[from Old & mod. French idolatre (from Proto-Romance (medieval Latin) idolatra for idololatra, -tres from Greek eidololatres: see -LATER; cf. IDOLATRY) + -ER1, or from IDOLATRY after astronomer, astronomy.]
A person who worships idols or images of deities or divinities. LME.
J. Norris Idolaters..pay that Religious Worship..to something else that is not God.
A person who idolizes or adores a person or thing. M16.
A. C. Swinburne The idolators of either [author] insisted..on the superior claims of their respective favorite.
idolatress noun (now rare) a female idolater E17.