Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: venerable
IPA transcription: [v'ɛnɚəbəl]
Pronunciations of venerable
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: venerable
    Meaning: impressive by reason of age; "a venerable sage with white hair and beard"
  • Synonyms: august, revered, venerable
    Meaning: profoundly honored; "revered holy men"
Usage examples
  • The venerable gate-keeper had conjectured right.
  • It is of undoubted native origin and venerable antiquity.
  • His silver-white hair when he removed his peruke was a venerable spectacle.
  • Wig and beard and venerable looks were all gone, and he recognised at once who Wrent was.
  • They walked beneath the venerable flanking trees toward the Maxineff villa, which surmounted a wooded continuation of the street.
  • The latter tree it not a little resembles in height, in the wide spread of its stalwart branches, and in its venerable and imposing aspect.
  • What had I to give in return for such a boon as that? Only that strength concerning which my venerable host had spoken somewhat encouragingly.
  • All three directly darted after Top, but at the moment when they joined him the animal had disappeared under the waters of a large pond shaded by venerable pines.
  • The house in itself was already an historic document, though not, of course, as venerable as certain other old family houses in University Place and lower Fifth Avenue.
  • He was in the clasp of the Grand Inquisitor himself, the venerable Pedro Arbuez d'Espila, who gazed at him with tearful eyes, like a good shepherd who had found his stray lamb.
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