adore

From Middle English *adoren, aouren, from Old French adorer, aorer, from Latin adōrō, from ad (“to”) + ōrō (“I speak”).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ədôʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈdɔː/
• (General American) enPR: ədôrʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈdɔɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ədōrʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈdo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /əˈdoə̯/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: adore

adore (third-person singular simple present adores, present participle adoring, simple past and past participle adored)

1. To worship.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,

     Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?

   • 1758, Tobias Smollett, A Complete History of England, London: James Rivington and James Fletcher, 3rd edition, Volume 6, Book 8, “William III,” p. 29,

     [James] was met at the castle-gate by a procession of […] bishops and priests in their pontificals, bearing the host, which he publicly adored.

   • 1852, Frederick Oakeley (translator), “O Come, All Ye Faithful” in Francis H. Murray, A Hymnal for Use in the English Church,

     Come and behold him

     Born the King of Angels:

     O come, let us adore Him,

     Christ the Lord.

2. To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.

   It is obvious to everyone that Gerry adores Heather.

   • 1849, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Volume I, Chapter 5, p. 388,

     The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth.

3. To be very fond of.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"

4. (obsolete) To adorn.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 4, Canto 11, p. ,

     […] and likewise on her hed

     A Chapelet of sundry flowers she wore,

     From vnder which the deawy humour shed,

     Did tricle downe her haire, like to the hore

     Congealed litle drops, which doe the morne adore.

• disdain

• adorable
• adoration

• E-road, O'Dare, oared, oread

• IPA^(key): /aˈdo.ɾe/

adore

1. energy
2. courage

• kemen

• adoretsu
• adoregabe
• adore eman

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔʁ/

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adore

1. first-person singular present indicative of adorer
2. third-person singular present indicative of adorer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of adorer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of adorer
5. second-person singular imperative of adorer

• éroda

adore

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of adorar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of adorar

From French adorer (“worship, adore”).

adore

1. adore
2. worship

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.do.re/, [ˈa.dɔ.rɛ]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈdoː.re/, [aˈdoː.rɛ]

adō̆re n

1. ablative singular of ador

adore

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of adorar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of adorar
3. first-person singular imperative of adorar
4. third-person singular imperative of adorar

adore

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of adora
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of adora

adore

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of adorar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of adorar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of adorar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of adorar.