ADULATION | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of adulation in English

(Definition of adulation from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of adulation from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of adulation

adulation
With the fan adulation come expectations, both for players and tournaments.
For good reason, people like these earn our respect and adulation; their grace under pressure strikes us as almost superhuman.
These contributions may be just as important as the original insight, but they will not attract public adulation.
But the media do need to take a step back and question the rock-star levels of adulation.
From CNN
It is a weight on his ability to achieve the unadulterated adulation he craves for his efforts in civil rights and social justice.
Rock stars get a lot of attention and sometimes adulation, and sometimes they even deserve it.
What characteristic above all others would elicit cheers and flowers and adulation?
Within two decades, those strands of glory and adulation would unspool like so much gossamer.
But the judges perjured themselves in their adulation of her.
From CNN
But many others turned from adulation to suspicion.
The kind of adulation and scrutiny he received made that conversation awkward for me.
From NPR
He is, by consensus, a genius, and he seems to be protecting his own sincerity against the force of popular adulation.
Children who need extra help don't get it, but adults trade high-fives for their "success" in raising scores and enjoy the adulation of the media.
He is met with little adulation -- they are waiting orders.
She soon followed up with a humor piece imagining a conversation between two male professors bemoaning diminishing adulation from the new generation of female pupils.
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Translations of adulation

in Chinese (Traditional)
(尤指名不副實的)稱讚,吹捧,恭維,奉承…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(尤指名不副实的)称赞,吹捧,恭维,奉承…
in Spanish
adulación…
in Portuguese
adulação…
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haketmediği halde birine gösterilen hayranlık ve övgü, gereğinden fazla övme, pohpohlama…
adulation…
bewieroking…
obdiv…
overdreven tilbedelse, overdreven smiger…
sanjungan, puji-pujian…
การยกยอ, การประจบประแจง…
sự bợ đỡ…
uwielbienie, wychwalanie, cielęcy zachwyt…
underdånig dyrkan…
penyanjungan…
Vergötterung…
overdreven tilbedelse, smisking…
підлещування, підлабузництво…
лесть…
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