venerateverb [ T ]
uk/ˈven.ər.eɪt/us/ˈven.ɚ.eɪt/formalto honour or very much respect a person or thing:
Robert Burns is Scotland's most venerated poet.
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Showing respect and admiration
- admiration
- admire
- admiring
- awe
- awestruck
- glory
- hero worship
- honorific
- honour
- idolatry
- idolize
- impress
- recognition
- regard
- reverential
- salute
- sb deserves a medal idiom
- sit
- sit at the feet of sb idiom
- stan
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veneration
noun [ U ] uk/ˌven.ərˈeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌven.ɚˈeɪ.ʃən/
Gandhi became an object of widespread veneration because of his unceasing struggle for freedom and equality.