tôn thờ
Definition
- Verb:
- To worship: To show profound religious devotion and reverence to a deity, god, or sacred object.
- To revere / to venerate: To have deep respect, admiration, and love for a person, ideal, or concept, often treating them as sacred or supremely important.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Người dân đến đền để tôn thờ các vị thần. (People come to the temple to worship the gods.)
- Anh ấy tôn thờ cha mẹ mình. (He reveres his parents.)
- Cô ấy tôn thờ sự thật và công lý. (She venerates truth and justice.)
Advanced Usage
- The object of "tôn thờ" can be abstract, indicating an extreme, almost religious devotion to a principle or material thing.
- Tôn thờ đồng tiền: To worship money; to be obsessed with wealth.
- Hắn ta chỉ biết tôn thờ đồng tiền. (He only knows how to worship money.)
Variants and Related Words
Sùng bái (v): To adore, to worship (often with a stronger connotation of blind or excessive devotion).
- Họ sùng bái thần tượng âm nhạc. (They adore their music idol.)
Thờ phụng (v): To worship, to venerate (commonly used in religious contexts).
- Gia đình ấy thờ phụng tổ tiên. (That family worships their ancestors.)
Synonyms
- Worship: To show religious devotion.
- Revere: To feel deep respect and admiration.
- Venerate: To regard with great respect.
- Idolize: To admire or love intensely, often to excess.
Related Idioms
Tôn thờ như thần tượng: To idolize; to treat someone as an idol.
- Cậu bé tôn thờ cầu thủ bóng đá như thần tượng. (The boy idolizes the football player.)
Tôn thờ mù quáng: To worship blindly; to follow or admire without critical thought.
- Tôn thờ mù quáng một học thuyết rất nguy hiểm. (Blindly worshipping a doctrine is very dangerous.)