revered

[ri-veerd]

adjective

1. held in high regard tinged with awe; venerated.

   Many of our most revered heroes were actually outlaws or rebels, fighting for a cause.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of revere.

Other Word Forms

• unrevered adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of revered¹

revere ¹ ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

My dad was a sports star and the high school athletic director in my hometown, a real “Friday Night Lights” kind of place where football was king and athletes were revered.

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He is globally revered for putting a stop to the frenzy of bloodletting 31 years ago, in which extremist members of the Hutu ethnic group murdered some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

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They are both the most revered and the most maligned cooks in our culture.

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The immediate capitulation of Disney, one of America’s largest and most revered corporations, is a shocking sign of just how quickly private, independent institutions are melting down under heated threat by a vindictive administration.

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I revered him then; I revere him now.”

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