Venerate

Definition: Venerate

Venerate

Verb

1. Be in awe of; "Fear God as your father".

Date "venerate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Note: Venerate \Ven"er*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Venerated; present participle verb or noun Venerating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Venerate

Synonyms: fear (v), revere (v), reverence (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Respect	Verb: respect, regard; revere, reverence; hold in reverence, honor, venerate, hallow; esteem; (approve of); think much of; entertain respect for, bear respect for; look up to, defer to; have a high opinion of, hold a high opinion of; pay attention, pay respect; n. to; do honor to, render honor to; do the honors, hail; show courtesy; salute, present arms; do homage to, pay homage to; pay tribute to, kneel to, bow to, bend the knee to; fall down before, prostrate oneself, kiss the hem of one's garment; worship.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Venerate

English words defined with "venerate": To respect the person. (references)

Specialty definitions using "venerate": Adore. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Venerate the Plough (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Venerate us.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	ADORE, v.t. To venerate expectantly.
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"Venerate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 42.86% of the time. "Venerate" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	42.86%	3	202,518
Adjective (general or positive)	28.57%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	14.29%	1	339,140
Noun (singular)	14.29%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	7	N/A

Language		Translations for "venerate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		respektoj (esteem, honor, honour, keep, regard, respect), përnderoj, nderoj (crown, curtsey, curtsy, esteem, honor, honour, respect). (various references)

Arabic		‏وقر (adore, consider, revere, steady), ‏بجل (aggrandize, consider, dignify, glorify, hallow, look up to, revere, worship). (various references)

Bulgarian		уважавам (admire, esteem, hold in esteem, honor, honour, mind, notice, regard, respect, worship), тача (keep, preserve, respect, revere, reverence, worship), благоговея пред (adore, revere), почитам (admire, commemorate, esteem, honor, honour, notice, respect, revere, worship). (various references)

Chinese		敬 (to offer, to respect, to salute, to venerate). (various references)

Czech		uctívat (adore, worship), klanìt se, ctít (honor, honour, respect, revere, worship). (various references)

Farsi		تکریم کردن (Dignify, Glorify), ستایش واحترام کردن . (various references)

French		vénérer. (various references)

German		verehren (admire, adore, donate, enshrine, give, glorify, honor, honour, idolize, revere, reverence, to adore, to enshrine, worship). (various references)

Greek		σέβομαι (defer, defer to, look up to, respect, revere). (various references)

Hebrew		לחלוק כבו�" (honour, pay tribute, revere), לכב�" (dignify, honor, honour, look up to, respect), ל�"וקיר (adore, appreciate, cherish, hold dear, prize, respect, treasure), ל�"עריץ (admire, adore, lionize, look up to, revere). (various references)

Hungarian		tisztel (esteem, honor, honour, respect, revere, to esteem, to fear, to honor, to honour, to prise, to respect, to revere, to reverence, to value, to venerate), hódol valakinek. (various references)

Italian		venerare (adore, hallow, revere, worship). (various references)

Manx		cur arrym da (honour, look up, revere). (various references)

Pig Latin		eneratevay

Portuguese		venerar (adore, ester, hallow, honor, honour, respect, revere, reverence). (various references)

Romanian		venera (adore, hallow, idolize, revere, worship), adora (adore, exalt, glorify, idolize, worship), admira (admire, respect, reverence). (various references)

Russian		благоговеть. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		poštovati (esteem, honor, honour, respect). (various references)

Spanish		venerar (admire, adore, enshrine, revere, reverence, sanctify). (various references)

Swedish		vörda (revere, reverence). (various references)

Turkish		tapmak (adore, deify, glorify, grovel, hero worship, idolize, make an idol of, revere, worship), saygı göstermek (consider, defer, do obeisance to, hold in esteem, hold in estimation, honor, honour, make obeisance, pay homage to, pay obeisance to, pay respect, respect, show consideration, show respect), hürmet etmek (do obeisance to, do smb. proud, make obeisance, pay obeisance to, pay tribute, respect, show respect). (various references)

Ukranian		шанувати (honor, honour, revere, set by, worship), поклонятися (adore, worship). (various references)

Vietnamese		tôn kính (deferential, obeisant, reverent). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	revereamur, revereantur, reverearis, reverebamur, reverebitur, reverebuntur, reveremini, reverentia, reveriti, reveritus, reveritusque, venerant, veneras, venerat, venero. (various references)
Avestan	200-600	ýaz. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "venerate": venerated, venerates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Venerate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cenerente, Everaet, everate, vanadate, Venavae, venderate, venerabe, venerale, venerat, venerete, venertate, venetrate, vennerate, veterate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "venerate" (pronounced ve"nerā't)
5	-e" n er ā' t	generate, regenerate.
4	-n er ā' t	exonerate, incinerate.
3	-er ā' t	accelerate, adulterate, agglomerate, ameliorate, collaborate, commemorate, commiserate, cooperate, corroborate, decelerate, decorate, deteriorate, enumerate, evaporate, eviscerate, exaggerate, exasperate, exhilarate, federate, inaugurate, incarcerate, incorporate, invigorate, lacerate, liberate, obliterate, operate, perforate, proliferate, recuperate, redecorate, refrigerate, reincorporate, reinvigorate, reiterate, reverberate, saturate, separate, tolerate.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: enervate.
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-n-r-t-v"
	-1 letter: nervate, veteran.
	-2 letters: entera, entree, eterne, evener, neater, retene, tavern, teener, veneer, venter.
	-3 letters: antre, arete, avert, eaten, eater, enate, enter, event, evert, nerve, never, ranee, raven, reave, reeve, rente, revet, terne, trave, treen, veena, venae.
	-4 letters: ante, aver, earn, eave, erne, etna, even, ever, nave, near, neat, neve, rant, rate, rave, rent, rete, tare, tarn, tear, teen, tern, tree, vane, veer, vena, vent, vera, vert.
	-5 letters: ane, ant, are, art, ate, ave, ear, eat, era, ere, ern, eta, eve, nae, nee, net, ran, rat, ree, ret, rev, tae, tan, tar, tav, tea, tee, ten, van, var, vat, vee, vet.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-n-r-t-v"
	+1 letter: denervate, enervated, enervates, overeaten, venerated, venerates.
	+2 letters: advertence, anteverted, denervated, denervates, generative, interleave, interweave, inveterate, overbeaten, rejuvenate, revealment.
	+3 letters: advertences, bereavement, depravement, enumerative, exonerative, interleaved, interleaves, interweaved, interweaves, overearnest, penetrative, preventable, reinnervate, rejuvenated, rejuvenates, revealments, reverberant, reverential.
	+4 letters: advertencies, aggrievement, bereavements, cantilevered, creativeness, degenerative, depravements, fermentative, inadvertence, invertebrate, inveteracies, inveterately, peradventure, presentative, preventative, reactiveness, regenerative, reinnervated, reinnervates, remunerative, revegetating, revegetation, seronegative, veterinaries.
	+5 letters: adventuresome, adventuresses, advertisement, advertizement, aggrievements, assertiveness, confederative, determinative, frequentative, inadvertences, invertebrates, operativeness, outmaneuvered, overanxieties, overexuberant, overstatement, overtreatment, peradventures, perseverating, perseveration, preventatives, privatenesses, reintegrative, reinvestigate, revegetations, reverberantly, reverberating, reverberation, reverentially, veritableness, versatileness.
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