1. an idealized person or thing
Usage: formal
2. a phantom or apparition
Usage: literary
3. an image of an object
Usage: archaic

Examples

• The hero became an eidolon of courage for future generations.
• She pursued an eidolon of perfection that could never be achieved.
• The poet described seeing an eidolon in the moonlit garden.
• Ancient philosophers wrote about eidolons as copies of true forms.
• His memory of her had become more eidolon than reality.
• The artist captured not just a portrait but an eidolon of beauty itself.