as in venerable
deserving honor and respect especially by reason of age
a beloved and venerated professor who has been a fixture on campus for decades
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as in worshipped
to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power
a proper setting in which to venerate God
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Recent Examples of venerated
Julia Teti, Footwear News, 9 May 2026
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
On May 10, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will open the new, nearly 12,000-square-foot galleries of its venerated Costume Institute.
—Jane Levere, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2026
The venerated civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the UFW with Chavez and served as the union’s vice president, later came forward with her own accounts of abuse by Chavez.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 24 Mar. 2026
Not only because its casting displays a high degree of difficulty in finding actors who also sing and dance, including an exciting discovery in Miles Caton, but also because casting director Francine Maisler is a venerated figure within Hollywood.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
Over the course of three Sundays, Image contributing photographer Jennelle Fong captured stylish visitors with their bounty at the venerated Hollywood Farmers Market.
—Jennelle Fong
contributing Photographer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
The Westerner, with eyes narrowed and speech slowed by a drawl, has become a venerated figure to people far removed from the species’ native habitat, the American range of yesterday that today doesn’t exist and, more to the point, save for artistic revisionist accounts, never did.
—Miles Beller, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
He was charged with dozens more counts of criminal mischief, burglary, intentional desecration of a venerated object and other crimes.
—Emma Caughlan, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
Marie-Claire Beaulieu, The Conversation, 5 May 2026
In that vein, there has recently been considerable attention paid to Hasan Piker, the controversial influencer whom progressives have venerated yet whose extremism and anti-American tirades worry moderates — and give Republicans ammunition.
—Douglas E. Schoen, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2026
There, at the present-day Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a bishop held up the cross for several hours as the faithful venerated it.
—ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
They were venerated as their tribes’ leaders.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
Dozens of firearms also were recovered, including handguns with images of Santa Muerte (a Mexican folk saint venerated by drug dealers) and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
In ancient Greece certain mortals who had achieved kleos (glory or fame) in life were venerated in death.
—Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
His mother, Sonia Sorel, was an actress and artist, and his father, John Carradine, was a prolific and venerated character actor.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2026
Seahorses are already venerated for having the unusual reproductive trait of the males being the ones that get pregnant.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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
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
On May 10, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will open the new, nearly 12,000-square-foot galleries of its venerated Costume Institute.
—Jane Levere, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2026
The venerated civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the UFW with Chavez and served as the union’s vice president, later came forward with her own accounts of abuse by Chavez.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 24 Mar. 2026
Not only because its casting displays a high degree of difficulty in finding actors who also sing and dance, including an exciting discovery in Miles Caton, but also because casting director Francine Maisler is a venerated figure within Hollywood.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
Over the course of three Sundays, Image contributing photographer Jennelle Fong captured stylish visitors with their bounty at the venerated Hollywood Farmers Market.
—Jennelle Fong
contributing Photographer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
The Westerner, with eyes narrowed and speech slowed by a drawl, has become a venerated figure to people far removed from the species’ native habitat, the American range of yesterday that today doesn’t exist and, more to the point, save for artistic revisionist accounts, never did.
—Miles Beller, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
He was charged with dozens more counts of criminal mischief, burglary, intentional desecration of a venerated object and other crimes.
—Emma Caughlan, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
Verb
Our Lady of Guadalupe is represented pregnant and venerated by devotees seeking protection and peace.
—Marie-Claire Beaulieu, The Conversation, 5 May 2026
In that vein, there has recently been considerable attention paid to Hasan Piker, the controversial influencer whom progressives have venerated yet whose extremism and anti-American tirades worry moderates — and give Republicans ammunition.
—Douglas E. Schoen, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2026
There, at the present-day Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a bishop held up the cross for several hours as the faithful venerated it.
—ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
They were venerated as their tribes’ leaders.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
Dozens of firearms also were recovered, including handguns with images of Santa Muerte (a Mexican folk saint venerated by drug dealers) and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
In ancient Greece certain mortals who had achieved kleos (glory or fame) in life were venerated in death.
—Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
His mother, Sonia Sorel, was an actress and artist, and his father, John Carradine, was a prolific and venerated character actor.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2026
Seahorses are already venerated for having the unusual reproductive trait of the males being the ones that get pregnant.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for venerated
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Several orbiting telescopes detect x-rays, including the venerable Chandra X-ray Observatory, XMM-Newton, Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, and more.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
15 May 2026
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The venerable sketch comedy series rang in its 51st year with some serious personnel changes.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
15 May 2026
Verb
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This is a story of such epic scale, yet of such personal and internal conflict, of a man who saved millions of lives, becoming both worshiped as a God and reviled as the devil.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
15 May 2026
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The delicate, asthmatic Audrey worshiped her suave, playboy father.—
Hadley Hall Meares,
Vanity Fair,
15 May 2026
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Not even Lee, a revered member of Congress for 27 years who entered office with broad labor and business support, has been willing to take on the city’s biggest problem.—
Daniel Borenstein,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026
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Totó La Momposina, the revered vocalist and global ambassador for Colombian Caribbean folk traditions, has died at 85 in Mexico following a prolonged battle with neurocognitive health complications.—
Preezy Brown,
Rolling Stone,
19 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Venerated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/venerated. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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