as in venerable
deserving honor and respect especially by reason of age
our reverend elders should be accorded a special place of honor at the ceremonies
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as in priest
a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church
called their reverend and asked if he could marry them next June
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Recent Examples of reverend
Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2022
There before the reverend mother and God, the police (wielding rifles) and the butchers (wielding a cow trailer) managed to corral two of the steers.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2022
Yamiche Alcindor, NBC news, 21 Dec. 2025
Brolin plays a small but pivotal role in Wake Up Dead Man as Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, the reverend whose murder brings Blanc to his rural parish.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025
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Adjective
No one was a better fit for the job to officiate Richie and Madden's 2010 wedding than the Run DMC frontman, who is a reverend IRL.
—Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2022
There before the reverend mother and God, the police (wielding rifles) and the butchers (wielding a cow trailer) managed to corral two of the steers.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2022
Noun
Matthew Long, a reverend at Portland’s Sudanese Fellowship Presbyterian Church, said that his community of South Sudanese worshippers panicked after hearing the news of TPS ending.
—Yamiche Alcindor, NBC news, 21 Dec. 2025
Brolin plays a small but pivotal role in Wake Up Dead Man as Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, the reverend whose murder brings Blanc to his rural parish.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reverend
Adjective
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Teagan plans to begin with the venerable piggy bank, with its easy-in slot and lock-protected door.—
byDoug Ashburn,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
11 May 2026
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Allen recorded the project at Austin’s venerable Arlyn Studios, with renowned guitarist — and mentor to Allen — Charlie Sexton co-producing along with Jacob Sciba.—
Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
4 May 2026
Noun
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Paradise Metal—the debut of Father Dionysios Tabakis, a 53-year-old priest in Nafplio, a small Greek city off the Argolic Gulf—is actually a series of epiphanies, an ostensible curiosity that functions as an object lesson about expectations.—
Grayson Haver Currin,
Pitchfork,
14 May 2026
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At one point, his condition seemed so dire that a priest was called to provide Giuliani his last rites, a Catholic sacrament often administered to the dying.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
14 May 2026
Adjective
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That means that the only official Cocteau Twins live release skips right over the most revered period of the band’s history.—
Al Shipley,
SPIN,
12 May 2026
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In addition to those allegations against Gardner in Mississippi, there are also claims of misconduct at one of the most revered gyms in competitive gymnastics.—
Jake Rosenwasser,
CBS News,
11 May 2026
Noun
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The girls follow his trail of tears to Divine (Erika Alexander), a charismatic preacher still in the carnal thrall of her time with their father.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
15 May 2026
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Far from being a fringe belief system, masculinism has become the single most important force uniting the American right, bringing together an unlikely constellation of pastors, posters, senators, preachers, influencers, podcasters, and fanboys.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
Adjective
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At the forthcoming 2026 Cannes Film Festival, Streisand will receive the Honorary Palme d’Or, commemorating the venerated artist’s decades-long career.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
9 May 2026
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Lenny Bruce, along with venerated comedians like George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Dick Gregory, created the foundation of the most cutting and controversial jokes about American culture and our political system.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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McColumn is a retired Brigadier General and clergyman from Warner Robins, Georgia.—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
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The clergyman warns that failure to do so would jeopardize the future of Iran as well as the stability of the entire Middle East, unleashing an even more volatile and repressive regime in the war’s wake.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Any respectable Sevillian is an expert in caracoles.—
Miguel Macias,
NPR,
13 May 2026
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No respectable woman would permit such an abomination.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
Noun
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Pollio was living in Sebring and was a deacon at his church there, his father said.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
8 May 2026
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While women cannot be ordained as priests or deacons, they are not forbidden from teaching the faith as theologians, catechists and scholars.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2026
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“Reverend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reverend. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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