• (RP) IPA: /ˈwɜː.ʃɪp/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈwɝ.ʃɪp/

worship (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The condition of being worthy; honour, distinction.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:3.21?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter xxiij], in Le Morte Darthur, book I:

     I will be on horsbak said the knyght / thenne was Arthur wrothe and dressid his sheld toward hym with his swerd drawen / whan the knyght sawe that / he a lyghte / for hym thought no worship to haue a knyght at suche auaille he to be on horsbak and he on foot and so he alyght & dressid his sheld vnto Arthur

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:

     Then he forth on his journey did proceede, / To seeke adventures which mote him befall, / And win him worship through his warlike deed […].

2. The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
3. The religious ceremonies that express this devotion.

   • The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.

4. (by extension) Voluntary, utter submission; voluntary, utter deference.
5. (also by extension) Ardent love.
6. An object of worship.

   • In attitude and aspect formed to be / At once the artist's worship and despair.

7. Honour; respect; civil deference.

   • of which great worth and worship may be won

   • Bible, Gospel of Luke xiv. 10

     Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.

• adoration
• reverence
• idolatry

• French: culte, adoration, vénération
• German: Verehrung, Anbetung
• Italian: adorazione, venerazione, culto
• Portuguese: adoração, cultuação, culto
• Russian: поклоне́ние
• Spanish: adoración

• French: culte
• German: Gottesdienst, Verehrung, Anbetung
• Italian: culto
• Portuguese: culto
• Russian: богослуже́ние

• French: culte
• German: Verehrung, Anbetung
• Italian: culto, venerazione, adorazione, ardore
• Portuguese: adoração
• Russian: обожа́ние

worship (worships, present participle worshipping; past and past participle worshipped)

1. (transitive) To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance)​, William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:

     God is to be worshipped.

   • 1655, John Milton, Sonnet 18

     When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones.

2. (transitive) To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.

   • With bended knees I daily worship her.

3. (intransitive) To participate in religious ceremonies.

   We worship at the church down the road.

• French: vénérer, adorer
• German: verehren, anbeten
• Italian: adorare, venerare, deificare
• Portuguese: adorar, venerar, cultuar
• Russian: поклоня́ться
• Spanish: adorar

• Italian: celebrare

worship (plural worships)

1. (British) A form of address of a mayor and other dignitaries
2. (Canada, archaic) A form of address of a mayor.