Lionize

Definition: Lionize

Lionize

Verb

1. Assign great social importance to; "The film director was celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was lionized in Vienna".

Date "lionize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references)

Synonym: Lionize

Synonym: celebrate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Curiosity	Verb: be curious; Adjective: take an interest in, stare, gape; prick up the ears, see sights, lionize; pry; nose; rubberneck.
Repute	Consecrate; dedicate to, devote to; enshrine, inscribe, blazon, lionize, blow the trumpet, crown with laurel.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Lionize

English words defined with "lionize": Lionized, Lionizing. (references)

Domain	Title
Music	Lionize [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	'We want the Olympics to be a pure sporting event -- not an opportunity for the Western news media to lionize dissidents and to play politics'.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "lionize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vizitoj vendet me interes, tregoj vendet me interes. (various references)

Arabic		‏كرم (benignity, fete, geniality, hospitality, kindness, vineyard), ‏إحتفى (welcome), ‏إحتفل (celebrate, feast one's eyes, fete, high time to, party, push out, rave, solemnize). (various references)

Bulgarian		разглеждам забележителности, третирам като знаменитост, обкръжавам с особено внимание, показвам забележителности. (various references)

Czech		zahrnovat obdivem. (various references)

Farsi		موردتوجه زیادقرارگرفتن , شیرکردن (Bield, Defy). (various references)

French		honorer, faire fête à, fêter, célébrer. (various references)

German		zum held machen, vergöttern (adore, deify, idolize, to deify, to idolize, worship), feiern (celebrate, commemorate, feast, fete, hold, junket, merry making, observe, party, revel, revels, solemnize, stay off work, to celebrate, to feast, to solemnize). (various references)

Greek		μεταχειρίζομαι τίνα ώσ σπουδαίον πρόσωπον, λεοντοποιώ. (various references)

Hebrew		להעריץ (admire, adore, look up to, revere, venerate). (various references)

Hungarian		látványosságokat megmutat, ünnepel valakit. (various references)

Italian		trattare come una celebrità. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		持て囃す (to lionize, to make much of, to praise extravagantly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		もてはやす (to lionize, to make much of, to praise extravagantly). (various references)

Manx		jannoo mooar jeh (cherish, flaunt, fuss). (various references)

Pig Latin		ionizelay

Portuguese		valente (brave, courageous, doughy, gallant, game, gamy, high-hearted, manfulness, plug, soldierly, stouthearted, valiant, valorous). (various references)

Romanian		trata ca pe o celebritate, face o vedetã din. (various references)

Russian		носиться с кем-л.. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		razgledati znamenitosti, obožavati (admire, adore, deify, idolize, worship). (various references)

Spanish		agasajar (dignify, entertain, feast, regale, to present, treat well). (various references)

Swedish		dyrka (adore, dote upon, glorify, idolize, worship). (various references)

Thai		ยกย่องเป็นผู้มีชื่อเสียง. (various references)

Turkish		dikkat çekmesini sağlamak (make a lion of, relieve, throw into relief), ünlü muamelesi yapmak (make a lion of). (various references)

Ukranian		показувати визначні місця. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lionize": lionized, lionizer, lionizers, lionizes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lionize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flixonase, Lemoniz, leonis, liiiike, Lijoie, linze, lioize, lionine, Lionis, lionise, lionoze, Lisniskey, Liutizi, livornese, lonze. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "lionize" (pronounced lī"unī'z)
5	-ī" u n ī' z	ionize.
4	-u n ī' z	agonize, aluminize, antagonize, balkanize, carbonize, colonize, communize, demonize, disorganize, euthanize, galvanize, harmonize, hellenize, homogenize, humanize, mechanize, organize, patronize, reorganize, revolutionize, scrutinize, suburbanize, synchronize, unionize, urbanize, womanize.
3	-n ī' z	fraternize, immunize, ironize, modernize, recognize, westernize.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-n-o-z"
	-1 letter: ionize.
	-2 letters: eloin, olein.
	-3 letters: enol, leno, lien, line, lino, lion, loin, lone, noel, noil, zein, zone.
	-4 letters: eon, ion, lei, lez, lie, lin, nil, oil, ole, one, zin.
	-5 letters: el, en, in, li, lo, ne, no, oe, on.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-n-o-z"
	+1 letter: lionized, lionizer, lionizes.
	+2 letters: ionizable, lionizers, obelizing.
	+3 letters: creolizing, eulogizing, gleization, melodizing, novelizing, polemizing, pollinizer, solecizing, vowelizing.
	+4 letters: colonialize, diagonalize, geologizing, gleizations, nationalize, orientalize, pollinizers, rationalize, realization, regionalize, siliconized, solemnizing, zillionaire.
	+5 letters: aerosolizing, allegorizing, bolshevizing, bowdlerizing, colonialized, colonializes, creolization, decolonizing, decolorizing, delocalizing, demobilizing, demoralizing, depolarizing, devocalizing, diagonalized, diagonalizes, embolization, emotionalize, equalization, fictionalize, idealization, ideologizing, insolubilize, laterization, legalization, lysogenizing, melanization, metabolizing, mongrelizing, nationalized, nationalizer, nationalizes, nebulization, novelization, orientalized, orientalizes, penalization, polemicizing, polymerizing, porcelainize, rationalized, rationalizer, rationalizes, realizations, recolonizing, regionalized, regionalizes, remobilizing, repolarizing, revalorizing, theologizing, unsocialized, velarization, zillionaires.
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