Usually means: Profound love and deep respect.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. adoration: Merriam-Webster
  2. adoration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adoration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adoration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adoration: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adoration, adoration: Wordnik
  7. adoration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adoration: Wiktionary
  9. adoration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adoration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adoration: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Adoration, adoration: Dictionary.com
  13. adoration: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Adoration (disambiguation), Adoration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Adoration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. adoration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. adoration: Rhymezone
  18. Adoration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. adoration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. adoration: FreeDictionary.org
  21. adoration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. adoration: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. adoration: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. adoration: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adoration: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adoration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. adoration: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adoration: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Adoration: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Adoration: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adoration: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (countable, religion) An act of religious worship.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
▸ noun:  (historical) The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).
▸ noun:  (Christianity) Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.

Similar:
worship, latria, idolization, idolisation, adulation, devotion, observance, glorification, oblation, prayer, more...

Opposite:
hatred, loathing, detestation, abhorrence

Types:
love, admiration, respect, fear, worship, veneration, reverence, awe, more...

Phrases:
perpetual adoration, Eucharistic adoration, Adoration of the Magi, Adoration of the Shepherds, object of adoration, more...

Adjectives:
religious, humble, perpetual, silent, blind, passionate, public, divine, profound, pure, grateful

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Similar:
worship, latria, idolization, idolisation, adulation, devotion, observance, glorification, oblation, prayer, more...

Opposite:
hatred, loathing, detestation, abhorrence

Types:
love, admiration, respect, fear, worship, veneration, reverence, awe, more...

Phrases:
perpetual adoration, Eucharistic adoration, Adoration of the Magi, Adoration of the Shepherds, object of adoration, opposite of adoration, objects of adoration, adoration proud love, more...

Adjectives:
religious, humble, perpetual, silent, blind, passionate, public, divine, profound, pure, grateful

Colors:
    rose,     blush,     lavender,     peach,     coral, more...



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