Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Worship \Wor"ship\, n. [OE. worshipe, wur[eth]scipe, AS.
   weor[eth]scipe; weor[eth] worth + -scipe -ship. See {Worth},
   a., and {-ship}.]
   1. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
      [Obs.] --Shak.

            A man of worship and honour.          --Chaucer.

            Elfin, born of noble state, And muckle worship in
            his native land.                      --Spenser.

   2. Honor; respect; civil deference. [Obs.]

            Of which great worth and worship may be won.
                                                  --Spenser.

            Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them
            that sit at meat with thee.           --Luke xiv.
                                                  10.

   3. Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain
      magistrates and others of rank or station.

            My father desires your worships' company. --Shak.

   4. The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being;
      religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of
      reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God. ``God
      with idols in their worship joined.'' --Milton.

            The worship of God is an eminent part of religion,
            and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.
                                                  --Tillotson.

   5. Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration;
      adoration.

            'T is your inky brows, your black silk hair, Your
            bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream, That can my
            spirits to your worship.              --Shak.

   6. An object of worship.

            In attitude and aspect formed to be At once the
            artist's worship and despair.         --Longfellow.

   {Devil worship}, {Fire worship}, {Hero worship}, etc. See
      under {Devil}, {Fire}, {Hero}, etc.

Hero \He"ro\, n.; pl. {Heroes}. [F. h['e]ros, L. heros, Gr. ?.]
   1. (Myth.) An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after
      death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.

   2. A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or
      fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage
      in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or
      illustrious person.

            Each man is a hero and oracle to somebody.
                                                  --Emerson.

   3. The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or
      the person who has the principal share in the transactions
      related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey,
      and [AE]neas in the [AE]neid.

            The shining quality of an epic hero.  --Dryden.

   {Hero worship}, extravagant admiration for great men, likened
      to the ancient worship of heroes.

            Hero worship exists, has existed, and will forever
            exist, universally among mankind.     --Carlyle.

Source : WordNet®

hero worship
     n : admiration for great men (or their memory)