to revere
- verb
- /rɪˈvɪr/
- His people revere him as a god.
- revere Jewish tradition
- people who revere
But we all need to Revere what she just did.
- But we all need to Revere what she just did.
- And I'd say the following things with my father, but again, whom I Revere, great man.
- You may have even revered that parent at one time yourself.
- I think for most of human history, we revered old people.
- And he was another one that, you know, everybody talks, I mean, reveres him as a genius.
- It really goes back to the first industrial revolution when we started revering machines.
- How can a college criticize the hoaxers but Revere ridiculous journals that publish nonsense?
- The people that I Revere are those who want it and they want it bad.
- Oh, if I were only in China, where they Revere us.
- And so again, now if he does not work himself up to the level that you can Revere, we got a big problem on our hands.
- Like to to him, that's his queen, but to other women that he has no feelings for, that he doesn't Revere in that way, he has no problems in the bedroom.
Examples
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History will long revere your courage and sacrifice.
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But the most important lesson is to revere a strong adversary.
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But we all need to Revere what she just did.
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The people that I Revere are those who want it and they want it bad.
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Of course, I revere the King, the Queen.
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I'm sure you loved and honored your father, and I know you revere his memory.
Fiction book (1998) -
Everyone here reveres your science.
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At the same time, she had been strictly trained to revere and obey her parents.
Fiction book (1993) -
Both Yavapai and Apache traditions revere and consider water a sacred element of life.
Academic text (2007) -
Many cultures revere their ancestors and the traditions they left behind.
Synonyms
To admire someone for their actions or qualities
To feel respect and pleasure when you look at someone or something
Love someone or something very much
To feel deep respect and awe toward someone, often for religious reasons
To admire someone very much, often without thinking about their faults
To have respect for someone because of what they do
To show great respect for a person or thing
To treat someone or something with deep respect
Antonyms
How Respectful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Revere as a verb comes from the Latin verb revereri, which meant 'to stand in awe' or deeply respect, so to revere someone today is to feel great respect or admiration for them.