In the practice of religion, a cult image or devotional image is a human-made object that is venerated or worshipped for the deity, person, spirit or daemon that it embodies or represents.

What does it mean to idolize someone?

transitive verb. : to worship as a god broadly : to love or admire to excess the common people whom he so idolized — The Times Literary Supplement (London) intransitive verb. : to practice idolatry.

What is the full meaning of idol?

1 : an object of extreme devotion a movie idol also : ideal sense 2. 2 : a representation or symbol of an object of worship broadly : a false god. 3a : a likeness of something. b obsolete : pretender, impostor. 4 : a false conception : fallacy.