an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship (供膜拜的)神像,偶像 ■a person or thing that is greatly admired, loved, or revered 受崇拜的对象,偶像 a soccer idol. 足球偶像。
语源
Middle English: from Old French idole, from Latin idolum 'image, form' (used in ecclesiastical Latin in the sense 'idol'), from Greek eidōlon, from eidos 'form, shape'