transcription, транскрипция: [ laɪənaɪz ]
( 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