reverend

1. 1.

   worthy of adoration or reverence

   Synonymssublime

   Similarsacred

Other forms of reverend

plural

reverends·

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 reverend

What does reverend mean?

reverend means "a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reverend?

reverend has 3 syllables: rev-e-rend. The stress falls on "rev". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛvɚənd/.

What is another word for reverend?

Close synonyms include clergyman, man of the cloth, sublime. 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.

Is reverend a common word?

reverend is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.