Ang kahulugan ng diksyunaryo ng salitang "idolo" ay ang paghanga, paggalang, o pagsamba sa isang tao o isang bagay sa labis o bulag na antas. Maaari din itong tumukoy sa kilos ng tungkol sa isang tao o isang bagay bilang isang idolo o isang bagay ng pagsamba o debosyon. Sa pangkalahatan, ang "idolo" ay nagpapahiwatig ng mataas na antas ng paghanga o paggalang sa isang tao o isang bagay, kadalasan hanggang sa punto ng pag-iisip o paglalagay sa kanila sa isang pedestal.
1. While Chris idolized Lance above all others, Jack knew the boy loved him for his muscles and athleticism and because Jack could always make him laugh.
2. That confused Lance even more about where he stood with this man he idolized above all others.
3. His eyes would settle on the small blond boy nesting beside him, the little brother who idolized him as a hero.
4. I hardly know how it has happened a little, perhaps, from that wickedness on my side which was prone to take disgust towards a girl so idolized and so cried up as she always was, by her aunt and grandmother, and all their set.
5. Sharon idolized Emelyn and tried to copy her, tossing frizzy brown hair over her shoulder and looking around with her nose in the air.
6. Long, loose-fitting cloaks covered the idolized men.
7. Men, idolized in golden frames and angel-white backgrounds stared back, profiled from the chest to the head.
8. The brother he had idolized all his life no longer helped him.
9. The women of her family had been nothing more than vessels to sustain it, idolized by the people because of the side-effects of an infection.