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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: assign great social importance to; "The film director was celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was lionized in Vienna" [syn: lionize, lionise, celebrate]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-ized; -izing) Date: 1809 1. to treat as an object of great interest or importance 2. British to show the sights of a place to • lionization noun • lionizer noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also -ise) treat as a celebrity. Derivatives: lionization n. lionizer n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lionize Li"on*ize (-[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lionized (-[imac]zd), p. pr. & vb. n. Lionizing (-[imac]`z[i^]ng).] 1. To treat or regard as a lion or object of great interest. -- J. D. Forbes. 2. To show the lions or objects of interest to; to conduct about among objects of interest. --Macaulay.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(lionizes, lionizing, lionized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'lionise' If someone is lionized, they are treated as if they are very important or special by a particular group of people, often when they do not really deserve to be. (FORMAL) By the 1920's, he was lionised by literary London... The press began to lionize him enthusiastically... In 1936, Max Schmeling had been lionised as boxing's great hope. VERB: be V-ed, V n, be V-ed as n

Moby Thesaurus

adulate, aggrandize, apotheose, apotheosize, beatify, belaud, bepraise, bless, blow up, boast of, brag about, canonize, celebrate, crown, cry up, deify, elevate, emblazon, ennoble, enshrine, enthrone, eulogize, exalt, extol, flatter, glamorize, glorify, go slumming, hero-worship, idolize, immortalize, laud, magnify, make legendary, make much of, overpraise, panegyrize, pay tribute, porter aux nues, praise, puff, puff up, raise, rubberneck, saint, salute, sanctify, see the lions, see the sights, set up, sight-see, throne, trumpet, uplift