name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
revere
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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name
Meaning 2
A city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, named after Paul Revere.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
A minor city in Redwood County, Minnesota.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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name
Meaning 4
A village in Clark County, Missouri.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 5
An unincorporated community in Whitman County, Washington, named after Paul Revere.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 6
A frazione in Mantua, Lombardy, Italy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
A revers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 8
To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- a highly revered musician
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: esteem, look up to, respect
Antonyms: contemn, despise, despect, disrespect, disdain, disesteem, look down on, misrespect, scorn, spurn
verb
Meaning 9
To honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g., a saint, or an idol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, transitive
Topics: lifestyle, religion
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: exalt, praise, venerate, aggrandize, applaud, enthrone, appraise, belaud, bepraise, commend, cry up, eulogize, extol, glorify, honor, idolize, laud, lionize, magnify, panegyrize, puff, revere, speak well of, transfigure, worthy
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: revers
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lapel
noun
Meaning 11
American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Paul Revere
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: American Revolutionary leader, silversmith, silverworker, silver-worker
verb
Meaning 12
love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Many teenagers idolized the Beatles
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: idolize, idolise, worship, hero-worship
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: adore
Narrower terms: drool over, slobber over
verb
Meaning 13
regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Fear God as your father
- We venerate genius
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: reverence, fear, venerate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: respect, esteem, value, prize, prise
Narrower terms: enshrine, saint, worship
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French révérer, ultimately from Latin revereor, from re- + vereor (“to fear”).
Across languages
Translations
57 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: وَقَّرَ (waqqara) — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Bulgarian: почитам (počitam) — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Bulgarian: тача (tača) — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Catalan: reverir — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Catalan: reverenciar — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Chinese Cantonese: 敬畏 (ging3 wai3) — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Chinese Cantonese: 寅畏 (jan4 wai3) — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Chinese Mandarin: 敬畏 (jìngwèi) — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Dutch: vereren — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Finnish: kunnioittaa — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Finnish: kunnioittaa syvästi — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Finnish: arvostaa — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Finnish: arvostaa suuresti — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Finnish: ihailla — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- French: idolâtrer — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- French: révérer — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- German: verehren — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (aistan) — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (gaaistan) — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Irish: urraigh — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Japanese: 敬う (uyamau) — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Japanese: 尊敬する (sonkei suru) — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Japanese: 崇敬する (sūkei suru) — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Korean: 존경하다 (jon'gyeonghada) — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Latin: revereor — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Māori: whakarangatira — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Māori: whakakoha — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Māori: kauanuanu — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Portuguese: reverenciar — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Sanskrit: पूजयति (pūjayati) — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Serbo-Croatian: пошто̀вати — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Serbo-Croatian: poštòvati — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Spanish: reverenciar — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Swedish: beundran — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Swedish: akta och ära — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Swedish: vörda — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Tocharian B: winā-sk- — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Turkish: saygı duymak — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Ottoman Turkish: طاپمق (tapmak) — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Ottoman Turkish: عبادت ایتمك (ʼibâdet etmek) — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Urdu: احترام کرنا (ehterām karnā) — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Vietnamese: tôn kính — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Vietnamese: cung kính — regard someone or something with great awe or devotion
- Bulgarian: благоговея (blagogoveja) — venerate someone or something as an idol
- Chinese Mandarin: 崇敬 (chóngjìng) — venerate someone or something as an idol
- Chinese Mandarin: 敬仰 (jìngyǎng) — venerate someone or something as an idol
- Dutch: aanbidden — venerate someone or something as an idol
- Dutch: verafgoden — venerate someone or something as an idol
- Finnish: ihannoida — venerate someone or something as an idol
- French: révérer — venerate someone or something as an idol
- French: idolâtrer — venerate someone or something as an idol
- German: anbeten — venerate someone or something as an idol
- Korean: 숭배하다 (sungbaehada) — venerate someone or something as an idol
- Spanish: idolatrar — venerate someone or something as an idol
- Tocharian B: winā-sk- — venerate someone or something as an idol
- Ottoman Turkish: طاپمق (tapmak) — venerate someone or something as an idol
- Ottoman Turkish: عبادت ایتمك (ʼibâdet etmek) — venerate someone or something as an idol
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