reverence

1. 1.

   regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of

   “Fear God as your father”

   “We venerate genius”

   Synonymsfearreverevenerate

   Broaderrespect

   Narrowerenshrineworship

Other forms of reverence

plural

reverences·

past tense

reverenced·

present participle

reverencing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reverence

What does reverence mean?

reverence means "a feeling of profound respect for someone or something". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reverence?

reverence has 3 syllables: rev-e-rence. The stress falls on "rev". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛvɚəns/.

What is another word for reverence?

Close synonyms include fear, awe, veneration, fear, revere. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of reverence?

The recorded antonyms are irreverence.

Is reverence a common word?

reverence is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with reverence?

1 word rhymes with reverence. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.