reverend

Speech parts

1. reverend - Noun

2. reverend - Adjective

3. reverend - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

clergyman minister rabbi bishop imam priest sacred clerical pastor sublime chaplain venerable worshipful man of God man of the cloth
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Antonyms

priestess mother superior laity layman abbess sister
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Hypernyms

title form of address spiritual leader title of respect

Hyponyms

minister shepherd dominus deacon parson rector

Phrases with the word

Most Reverend Right Reverend Very Reverend

Examples

The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours. Isaac Watts

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. Sun Myung Moon

The old laws of England - they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo - Liberty! Percy Bysshe Shelley

I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend - I got 'em all. But I don't want to be holier-than-thou. I want to help everybody and still get some (sex). Mike Tyson

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. Don DeLillo

The Reverend Pullman sat on the opposite side of the bench, wearing clerical garb and one of those unctuous smiles that proclaims a monopoly on truth. Jack McDevitt

Close letter words and terms

reveredness reverence reverencer Reverend Dodgson reverendly reverendness