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Definition: Worshipped |
WorshippedAdjective1. 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 "worshipped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: WorshippedSynonyms: adored (adj), idolised (adj), idolized (adj), worshipped(a) (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Worshipped |
| English words defined with "worshipped": a people, Amen, Amon, Anglo-Saxon deity ♦ Baal, Buddha ♦ Celtic deity, Chinese deity, country ♦ deity, Dharma, divinity ♦ Egyptian deity ♦ Gautama, Gautama Buddha, Gautama Siddhartha, God, god of war, golden calf, graven image, Greek deity ♦ Haile Selassie, Hindu deity ♦ idol, idolatrously, immortal ♦ Japanese deity, joss ♦ land ♦ mama ♦ nation, Ninhursag, Ninkharsag, Ninkhursag, Nintoo, Nintu, Norse deity ♦ Ptah ♦ Ras Tafari, Ras Tafari Makonnen, Roman deity ♦ Semitic deity, Siddhartha, snake god, Surya ♦ Teutonic deity, the Buddha ♦ Vishnu ♦ war god ♦ zombi, zombie. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "worshipped": Achor, Anammelech ♦ Bamah, Bouljanus ♦ Cabiri, Collyridians, Cotytto, Cuntur ♦ Dagun ♦ Gods ♦ Hermensul, Hot Cross Buns ♦ Kaaba, Kiak-Kiak ♦ Menah ♦ Nesr ♦ Pi-beseth ♦ Remigius ♦ Succoth-benoth ♦ TAFT ♦ Venus Genetrix. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I don't want to be worshipped. I want to be loved (The Philadelphia Story; writing credit: Donald Ogden Stewart) It's what everybody feels about you. It's what I first worshipped you for from afar (The Philadelphia Story; writing credit: Donald Ogden Stewart) I worshipped him. (The General's Daughter; writing credit: Christopher Bertolini) I was feared and worshipped across the mortal globe, and now I'm stuck at Sunnydale High as a mortal (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Sopona, god of smallpox, worshipped by the Yorubas of Nigeria] / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Donkey head idol being worshipped and letter H. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Midway Church--This place of worship was organized by a group of Puritans from Dorchester, S.C., who worshipped in Midway, Georgia, until 1781. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Atmosphere 4" by Jillian Balfour Commentary: "I think i understand why the Native Americans worshipped the sky." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Calvin Coolidge | Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. |
Iris Murdoch | I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She worshipped her child |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Worshipped" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 53.66% of the time. "Worshipped" is used about 205 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) | 53.66% | 110 | 30,952 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 43.41% | 89 | 34,931 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.93% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 205 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "worshipped": hero-worshipped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "worshipped"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 崇拜 (Adoration, Adore, adored, Adoring, Cult, Deified, Deify, Deifying, Worship, Worshiped, Worshiping, Worshipping). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 石神 (image of a god in stone, stone which is worshipped). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゃくじん (image of a god in stone, stone which is worshipped), いしがみ (image of a god in stone, stone which is worshipped). (various references) | |
Korean | 숭배하는 (Worshiped). (various references) | |
Manx | ooashlit (revered), ammysit (esteemed). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orshippedway.(various references) | |
Russian | поклоняться почитаемый (worshiped). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Avestan | 200-600 | ishtô. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 24, Verse 26 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eudokhsaV o anqrwpoV prosekunhsen kuriw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Inclinavit se homo et adoravit Dominum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The man bowide hym silf, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And the man bowed himselfe and worshipped the LORde |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the man bowed his head, and worshipped the LORD. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And with bent head the man gave worship to the Lord; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 24, Verse 26 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang tawo miduko, ug misimba kang Jehova. |
| Chinese | 那 人 就 低 頭 向 耶 和 華 下 拜 、 |
| Croatian | Èovjek se onda duboko nakloni te iskaže poštovanje Jahvi |
| Danish | Da bøjede Manden sig og tilbad HERREN, |
| Dutch | Toen neigde die man zijn hoofd, en aanbad den HEERE; |
| Finnish | Silloin mies kumartui maahan ja rukoili Herraa |
| French | Alors l`homme s`inclina et se prosterna devant l`Éternel, |
| German | Da neigte sich der Mann und betete den HERRN an |
| Haitian Creole | Lè sa a, nonm lan tonbe ajenou, li bese tèt li jouk atè devan Seyè a. |
| Hungarian | Meghajtá azért magát az ember, és imádá az Urat. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Maka sujudlah hamba itu menyembah TUHAN. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu orang itupun menundukkan kepalanya dan meminta doa kepada Tuhan, |
| Maori | Na tuohu ana taua tangata, koropiko ana ki a Ihowa. |
| Norwegian | Da bøide mannen sig ned og tilbad Herren |
| Portuguese | Então inclinou-se o homem e adorou ao Senhor; |
| Rumanian | Atunci omul a plecat capul, wi s`a aruncat cu faya la pqmknt knaintea Domnului, |
| Swedish | Då böjde mannen sig ned och tillbad HERREN |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "worshipped" (pronounced wer"shupt) |
| 6 | w er" sh u p t | worshiped. |
| 3 | -u p t | bankrupt, developed, enveloped, galloped, scalloped, underdeveloped, undeveloped. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-o-p-p-r-s-w" | |
-1 letter: worshiped. | |
-2 letters: spheroid, whippers, whoppers. | |
-3 letters: dippers, dowries, hoppers, hoppier, howdies, periods, powders, preshow, rowdies, shipped, shipper, shopped, shopper, showier, soppier, swopped, weirdos, whipped, whipper, whisper, whopped, whopper, worship. | |
-4 letters: dipper, dopers, dopier, dories, dowers, dowser, drowse, ephods, ephori, ephors, hiders, hipped, hipper, hippos, hoised, hopers, hopped, hopper, hordes, horsed, hosier, howdie, pedros, period. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-o-p-p-r-s-w" | |
+2 letters: horsewhipped. | |
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