Usually means: Treat someone as a celebrity.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. lionize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lionize: Merriam-Webster
  3. lionize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lionize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lionize: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lionize: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lionize, lionize: Wordnik
  8. lionize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lionize: Wiktionary
  10. lionize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lionize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lionize: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lionize, lionize: Dictionary.com
  14. Lionize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Lionize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lionize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lionize: Rhymezone
  18. Lionize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lionize: FreeDictionary.org
  20. lionize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. lionize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lionize: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lionize: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lionize: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Lionize: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To treat (a person) as if they were important, or a celebrity.
verb:  (transitive) To visit (a famous place) in order to revere it.

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