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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Idolater \I*dol"a*ter\, noun [F. idol[^a]tre: cf. L. idololatres, Gr. ?. See {Idolatry}.]
1. A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan.
2. An adorer; a great admirer.
Jonson was an idolater of the ancients. --Bp. Hurd.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
idolater
noun: a person who worships idols [syn: {idolizer}, {idoliser}, {idol worshiper}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "idolater": Druid, Parsi, Sabaist, Zoroastrian, admirer, adorer, allotheist, amateur, animal worshiper, animist, anthropolater, arborolater, archaeolater, beadsman, booster, buff, celebrant, chapelgoer, chthonian, churchgoer, collector, communicant, congregation, daily communicant, demon worshiper, demonolater, dendrolater, devil worshiper, devotee, dilettante, evangelist, fan, fancier, fetishist, fire worshiper, follower, groupie, heathen, idol worshiper, idolatress, idolatrizer, idolist, idolizer, nature worshiper, ophiolater, pagan, petitioner, phallic worshiper, prayer, pyrolater, revivalist, rooter, snake worshiper, star worshiper, sun worshiper, suppliant, supplicant, supplicator, theriolater, therolater, tree worshiper, venerator, votary, worshiper, zoolater
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