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Definition: Adored |
AdoredAdjective1. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god); "adored grandchildren"; "an idolized wife". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adored" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: AdoredSynonyms: idolised (adj), idolized (adj), worshipped(a) (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Adored |
| English words defined with "adored": adore ♦ idol ♦ matinee idol ♦ Under open sky. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "adored": Baal ♦ Odour of Sanctity ♦ Relics ♦ Weighed in the Balance, and found Wanting ♦ Zeus. (references) |
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Screenplays | Andy's growing up, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's your choice, Woody. You can go back, or you can stay with us and last forever. You'll be adored by children for generations. (Toy Story 2; writing credit: John Lasseter; Peter Docter) I happen to like being adored, thank you! (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith) He adores me and I need to be adored. (Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows; writing credit: Lorna Luft; Robert L. Freedman) Eric Von Zipper adores you. And when Eric Von Zipper adores somebody, they stay adored. (Beach Blanket Bingo; writing credit: William Asher; Leo Townsend) | |
Lyrics | Just to be adored ("Stupid Girl"; performing artist: Garbage) Well you couldn't be that man I adored ("Torn"; performing artist: Natalie Imbruglia) | |
Movie/TV Titles | I Wanna Be Adored (1997) Return of the Adored One (1983) | |
Song Titles | MY EYES ADORED YOU (performing artist: Frankie Valli ) My Eyes Adored You (performing artist: Frankie Vallie) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | There is hope, my adored, hope for thy sister and for us.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson | A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | You will be adored in Highbury. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | You see nothing, but you feel yourself adored. |
The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. |
Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | I was adored once too. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BAAL, n. An old deity formerly much worshiped under various names. As Baal he was popular with the Phoenicians; as Belus or Bel he had the honor to be served by the priest Berosus, who wrote the famous account of the Deluge; as Babel he had a tower partly erected to his glory on the Plain of Shinar. From Babel comes our English word "babble." Under whatever name worshiped, Baal is the Sun-god. As Beelzebub he is the god of flies, which are begotten of the sun's rays on the stagnant water. In Physicia Baal is still worshiped as Bolus, and as Belly he is adored and served with abundant sacrifice by the priests of Guttledom. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Naomi Campbell | I really adored it and I miss it and I've got this fear, which I'm hopefully going to break one day soon or going back to class just for a hobby, just to enjoy. |
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| "Adored" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 80.85% of the time. "Adored" is used about 282 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 80.85% | 228 | 19,909 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 13.48% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.32% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 282 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adored celebrity | 27 |
adored | 17 |
adored eyes lyrics | 7 |
adored celeb | 7 |
adored i wanna | 3 |
adored flying high | 2 |
adored celbrites.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "adored"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 崇拜 (Adoration, Adore, Adoring, Cult, Deified, Deify, Deifying, Worship, Worshiped, Worshiping, Worshipped, Worshipping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aangebedene (adored one). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | adoratino (adored one). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | adorai, adorées, adoré, adorâmes, adorèrent, adora. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verehrte (enshrined, revered, venerated, worshiped), angebetet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | imádott (adored one). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | adorato (beloved). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 경앙하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adoreday adorado (beloved, inamorato). (various references) adorat (adorable, beloved, dear). (various references) восхищаться обожаемый. (various references) adorado. (various references) палко коханий. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Adored" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adard, Adare, addorsed, adhorred, Adire, adorada, adorata, adoree, adoret, adosed, adred, adrode, adroid, ajore, aored, ardore, avored, avoret, ayore, ayoreo, darode, doored, Eodred, gadaref, idared, Idurd, Kadoorie, Odrodek. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "adored" (pronounced udô"rd) |
| 3 | -ô" r d | abhorred, aboard, accord, afford, award, board, bored, chord, cord, deplored, explored, fjord, floored, Ford, gored, gourd, hoard, horde, ignored, implored, Lord, oared, outscored, pored, poured, prerecord, reboard, record, restored, reward, roared, scored, shored, soared, stored, sword, toward, underscored, unexplored, untoward, ward. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: deodar. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-o-r" | |
-1 letter: adder, adore, dared, dread, oared, odder, oread, readd. | |
-2 letters: aero, dado, dare, dead, dear, doer, dore, eddo, odea, orad, read, redd, redo, road, rode. | |
-3 letters: add, ado, are, dad, doe, dor, ear, era, oar, odd, ode, ora, ore, rad, red, rod, roe. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, ar, de, do, ed, er, od, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-o-r" | |
+1 letter: adorned, boarded, deodara, deodars, hoarded, radioed, roadbed. | |
+2 letters: accorded, adsorbed, afforded, brocaded, corraded, deodaras, dogeared, drophead, headword, ordained, outdared, pardoned, parodied, reloaded, roadbeds, roadside. | |
+3 letters: adjourned, andromeda, bombarded, broadened, broadside, cedarwood, coadmired, decorated, dedicator, deodorant, derogated, desperado, downgrade, dragooned, dreadlock, dromedary, dropheads, foredated, forwarded, gadrooned, headboard, headwords, jeoparded, leotarded, moderated, mordanted, nongraded, oddsmaker, outtraded, overdared, overladed, pollarded, poniarded, ramrodded, readopted, readorned, reboarded, roadsides, roadstead, sideboard, unadorned, uphoarded. | |
+4 letters: airdropped, andromedas, becowarded, biodegrade, borderland, breadboard, broadsided, broadsides, cardholder, cedarwoods, decahedron, dedicators, dedicatory, dehydrator, dendrogram, deodorants, depredator, desperados, disfavored, doomsdayer, downgraded, downgrades, dragonhead, dreadlocks, dreamworld, endeavored, endocardia, endodermal, forecaddie, forehanded, freeloaded, headboards, ironhanded, keyboarded, landholder, motorcaded, oddsmakers, outdragged, outdreamed, overgoaded, overhanded, overloaded, overtraded, preadopted, promenaded, radiosonde, railroaded, randomized, reordained, roadsteads, saddlesore, sideboards, soreheaded, squadroned, wonderland, woodlander. | |
+5 letters: archdukedom, backdropped, barricadoed, billboarded, biodegraded, biodegrades, bladderwort, borderlands, breadboards, broadcasted, carbonadoed, cardholders, chowderhead, clapboarded, coldhearted, coordinated, crossbanded, decahedrons, degradation, dehydration, dehydrators, demodulator, demoralized, dendrograms, depolarized, depredation, depredators, depredatory, deprogramed, desperadoes, disaccorded, disapproved, discordance, discouraged, dodecahedra, doomsdayers, downhearted, dragonheads, dreadnought, dreamworlds, dromedaries, edulcorated, endeavoured, endocardial, endocardium, fluoridated, forbiddance, forecaddies, goddaughter, godfathered, gormandised, gormandized, hardmouthed, hydromedusa, hydroplaned, jeopardised, jeopardized, landholders, leaderboard, modularized, overhandled, overpedaled, overplaided, paddleboard, paradropped, philodendra, pompadoured, preordained, radiosondes, redecorated, retrograded, rhapsodized, roadblocked, rodomontade, roundheaded, shorthanded, stadtholder, starboarded, surfboarded, undecorated, warmblooded, wonderlands, woodlanders, wrongheaded. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 6F 72 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. --- .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01101111 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d o r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 006F 0072 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357081847170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Spoken 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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