REVERENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reverence mean?
• REVERENCE (noun)
The noun REVERENCE has 2 senses:
1. a profound emotion inspired by a deity
2. a reverent mental attitude
Familiarity information: REVERENCE used as a noun is rare.
• REVERENCE (verb)
The verb REVERENCE has 1 sense:
1. regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
Familiarity information: REVERENCE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• REVERENCE (noun)
Meaning:
A profound emotion inspired by a deity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
reverence; veneration; awe; fear
Context example:
the fear of God
Hypernyms ("reverence" is a kind of...):
emotion (any strong feeling)
Meaning:
A reverent mental attitude
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("reverence" is a kind of...):
attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)
Antonym:
irreverence (an irreverent mental attitude)
• REVERENCE (verb)
Meaning:
Regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
reverence; venerate; revere; fear
Context examples:
Fear God as your father / We venerate genius
Hypernyms (to "reverence" is one way to...):
esteem; prise; prize; respect; value (regard highly; think much of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reverence"):
enshrine; saint (hold sacred)
worship (show devotion to (a deity))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
