the venerable bede

Questions about the venerable bede

What does the venerable bede mean?

the venerable bede means "(Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)".

What is another word for the venerable bede?

Close synonyms include Bede, Saint Bede, St. Bede, Baeda, Saint Baeda. 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 the venerable bede a common word?

the venerable bede is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.