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hero-worshipping

hero-worshipping is the present participle and gerund of hero-worship.

Meaning of hero-worship

Verb

hero-worship (third-person singular simple present hero-worships, present participle (US) hero-worshiping or (UK) hero-worshipping, simple past and past participle (US) hero-worshiped or (UK) hero-worshipped)

  1. To treat as a hero
    • William hero-worshipped Carling and met him several times with Diana. When Carling visited Kensington Palace for a romantic rendezvous, he gave both the boys a rugby shirt.April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair

Questions about hero-worshipping

What is hero-worshipping the present participle and gerund of?
Hero-worshipping is the present participle and gerund of hero-worship.

Words near hero-worshipping in the dictionary

  1. hero worship
  2. hero-cane
  3. hero-myth
  4. hero-worship
  5. hero-worshipped
  6. hero-worshipping
  7. hero-worships
  8. heroa
  9. heroarchies
  10. heroarchy
  11. Herod

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hero-worshipping (page history and authors); hero-worship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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