venerate
/ˈvɛnəɹeɪt/
venerate verb: to treat with great respect and deference.
Verb
venerate (third-person singular simple present venerates, present participle venerating, simple past and past participle venerated)
- To treat with great respect and deference.
- Synonyms:
- esteem, honor, look up to, idolize, lay store by, prize, hallow, put store by, put store in, rate
- To revere or hold in awe.
- […] we cannot but venerate in Johnson one of the most exercised minds that our holy religion hath ever formed.1791, James Boswell, “[1756]”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 168
venerate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
venerate in Tamil
- To treat with great respect and deference
- போற்றுதல் pōṟṟutal
venerate in Urdu
- احترام کرنا, پوجنا, تقدیس کرنا
venerate in Bengali
- গভীর শ্রদ্ধা করা, পূজা করা
venerate in Malayalam
- To treat with great respect and deference
- ആദരിക്കുക ādarikkuka
- To revere or hold in awe
- ആരാധിക്കുക ārādhikkuka
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- venerate in Sanskrit
- पूजयति pūjayati
- venerate in Arabic
- بَجَّلَ bajjala
- venerate in Vietnamese
- tôn kính
Examples of venerate in a sentence
- The Hyperboreans venerated Apollo over the other gods.
- What about the exclusive nature of the Western literary canon, venerated by dark academics?
- In a critical climate that venerates slick, hyperproduced Top 40 pop, why is she immune to praise?
Synonyms of venerate
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Forms of venerate
| third-person singular present | venerates |
|---|---|
| present participle | venerating |
| past participle | venerated |
| past | venerated |
Origin of venerate
First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin venerātus, perfect active participle of veneror (“to worship, venerate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Words formed from venerate
Words that rhyme with venerate
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- mate
- late
- bate
- create
- date
- relate
- vibrate
- wait
- deflate
- fate
- migrate
- rebate
- rotate
- strait
- supererogate
- translocate
- await
- eight
- freight
- skate
- alternate
- collate
- debate
- inflate
- sedate
- update
- compensate
- delate
- dilate
- fixate
- grate
- Haight
- hate
- implicate
- innate
- intercalate
- locate
- mandate
- negate
- overweight
- pinnate
- quadrate
- tate
- vacate
- aerate
- calibrate
- castrate
- conflate
Questions about venerate
- What does venerate mean?
- Venerate means to treat with great respect and deference.
- What is venerate in Tamil?
- Venerate in Tamil is போற்றுதல் (pōṟṟutal). See Venerate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is venerate?
- Venerate is a verb.
- How do you pronounce venerate?
- Venerate is pronounced /ˈvɛnəɹeɪt/.
- What is the past tense of venerate?
- The past tense of venerate is venerated.
Words near venerate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: venerate (page history and authors); venerate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); venerate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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