worshipper

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who worships a god, especially one attending a religious service

   Each worshipper removed their shoes before entering the temple.

2. 2
   noun

   a person who admires someone or something with excessive or unquestioning devotion

   He became an unquestioning worshipper of celebrity culture.

Common collocations

• hero worshipper Noun + noun

Inherited from Middle English forms such as worschiper and worshipore and now analyzable as worship + the agent suffix -er. Worship comes from Old English weorthscipe ("worthiness, acknowledgement of worth"), which shifted from honor generally to religious reverence.

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