Matinee Idol

Definition: Matinee Idol

Matinee Idol

Noun

1. Someone who is adored blindly and excessively.

Synonym: Matinee Idol

Synonym: idol (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Matinee Idol

Specialty definitions using "matinee idol": GARRICK. (references)

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Matinee Idol (1933)

The Matinee Idol (1928)

Bab's Matinee Idol (1917)

The Girl and the Matinee Idol (1915)

Matinee Idol (1984)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Matinee Idol (reference) Ricardo--Diary of a Matinee Idol (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	The Matinee Idol (1928) / Frank Capra's American Dream (1997) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	From Matinee Idol to Buffoon (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	De Wolf Hopper in A matinee idol.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "matinee idol"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Spanish		ídolo del público. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-i-l-m-n-o-t"
	-1 letter: eliminated.
	-2 letters: alimented, demential, eliminate, mediation, toenailed.
	-3 letters: dateline, delation, deletion, dementia, dilation, dominate, endemial, entailed, entoiled, ideation, ilmenite, iodinate, lamented, lemonade, limonite, lineated, melanite, melanoid, melinite, nematode, timeline, tolidine.
	-4 letters: ailment, aliened, aliment, amidine, amidone, amniote, delaine, delimit, demeton, diamine, dominie, edition, elation, eloined, emailed, etamine, inedita, intimae, intimal, latened, leadmen, lentoid, lianoid.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-i-l-m-n-o-t"
	+2 letters: demyelination, emotionalized.
	+3 letters: delegitimation, demyelinations.
	+4 letters: delegitimations, indomitableness, pinealectomized.
	+5 letters: demineralization, depolymerization, dimensionalities, sedimentological.
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