: regarded with reverence : regarded as worthy of great honor and respect
… Vince Carter, a member of the U. S. basketball team and still a state hero after having been a star on the University of North Carolina's revered hoops team.—
Erin Whalen
Here are some of their greatest monasteries and the remains of their most revered saints.—Janine Di Giovanni
… because [Doina] Melinte was the 1984 Olympic gold medalist at 800 meters, she remains one of Romania's most revered citizens.—Merrell Noden
Examples of revered in a Sentence
a professor who is highly revered at the college where she has taught for the last four decades
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But oftentimes, the solution to new problems is found by looking to the past, to Kerr’s days in Chicago and his revered former coach.
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“Revered.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/revered. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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