A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power
There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu,There's a little marble cross below the town; There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the Yellow God forever gazes down.
If you refer to someone as a fallen idol, you mean that they have lost people's respect and admiration because of something bad that they have done. Image or statue of a deity used as an object of worship. In Judaism, the making of any representation of God is strictly forbidden, as is the fashioning of any "graven image." Islam has also adhered to this rule. In Christianity, there has been a general acceptance of pictorial or sculpted images of Jesus and the saints and, on occasion, God, and Christianity has thus always faced the danger that such representations could be venerated superstitiously as idols. In Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism images of gods and saints are common; they are often the object of veneration. In Hinduism, a statue may be treated as a god as an act of devotion but loses its special status when the act of devotion is finished (see Durga-puja, puja)
a material effigy that is worshipped as a god; "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"; "money was his god" someone who is adored blindly and excessively
If you refer to someone such as a film, pop, or sports star as an idol, you mean that they are greatly admired or loved by their fans. A great cheer went up from the crowd as they caught sight of their idol
An image of a divinity; a representation or symbol of a deity or any other being or thing, made or used as an object of worship; a similitude of a false god
symbol of the substitution of the ego for our true Self or God; a false belief that there can be something other than, or more than God, and thus separate from Him, a belief which is then projected onto the special relationship: people, things, or ideas; the anti-Christ