0 a feeling of extreme admiration for someone, imagining that they have qualities or abilities that are better than anyone else's
1 to admire someone and imagine that they have qualities or abilities that are better than anyone else's:
Hero-worshipping an older sibling is perfectly understandable.
As a public figure hero-worshipped by countless youngsters, his drug-taking was unfortunate.
Armstrong, thinking it a manifestation of hero worship, offered to sign the boy's autograph book.
Thinking critically about genius does not mean we shall inevitably succumb to cultural snobbery or hero worship.
On heroes, hero worship and the heroic in history.
After all, everyone knows of the case of the schoolgirl "crush" and of the boy's hero worship.
We all know that boys are prone to hero worship older boys or men and that girls have crushes on older girls and women.
