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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 hero worship
 英雄崇拜

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Wor·ship n.
 1. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.  [Obs.]
    A man of worship and honour.   --Chaucer.
 Elfin, born of noble state,
 And muckle worship in his native land.   --Spenser.
 2. Honor; respect; civil deference.  [Obs.]
    Of which great worth and worship may be won.   --Spenser.
    Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.   --Luke xiv. 10.
 3. Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.
    My father desires your worships' company.   --Shak.
 4. The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God.  “God with idols in their worship joined.”
    The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.   --Tillotson.
 5. Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
 'T is your inky brows, your black silk hair,
 Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,
 That can my spirits to your worship.   --Shak.
 6. An object of worship.
 In attitude and aspect formed to be
 At once the artist's worship and despair.   --Longfellow.
 Devil worship, Fire worship, Hero worship, etc.  See under Devil, Fire, Hero, etc.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 He·ro n.; pl. Heroes
 1. Myth. An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
 2. A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person.
    Each man is a hero and oracle to somebody.   --Emerson.
 3. The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid.
    The shining quality of an epic hero.   --Dryden.
 Hero worship, extravagant admiration for great men, likened to the ancient worship of heroes.
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    Hero worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind.   --Carlyle.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 hero worship
      n : admiration for great men (or their memory)