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Definitions: Reverend |
ReverendAdjective1. Worthy of adoration or reverence. Noun1. A member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church. 2. A title of respect for a clergyman. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reverend" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
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Literature | Reverend An archbishop is the Most Reverend [Father in God]; a bishop, the Right Reverend; a dean, the Very Reverend; an archdeacon, the Venerable; all the rest of the clergy, the Reverend. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| Rev. | English | Reverend Father | Religion & Philosophy |
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Synonyms: ReverendSynonyms: revered (adj), reverenced (adj), sublime (adj), venerated (adj), clergyman (n), man of the cloth (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: layman (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clergy | Clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant, pastor, shepherd, minister; father, father in Christ; padre, abbe, cure; patriarch; reverend; black coat; confessor. |
Adjective: the Reverend, the very Reverend, the Right Reverend; ordained, in orders, called to the ministry. | |
Title | Highness, excellency, grace; lordship, worship; reverence, reverend; esquire, sir, master, Mr., signor, se$or, Mein Herr, mynheer; your honor, his honor; serene highness; handle to one's name. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Reverend |
| English words defined with "reverend": Most Reverend Father in God ♦ Reverend Dodgson ♦ Sacred place ♦ Unreverend ♦ Very Reverend. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reverend": Cross ♦ Picatrix ♦ retribution ♦ success. (references) |
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Screenplays | No, dear, it was Reverend Harper who sneezed. (Arsenic and Old Lace; writing credit: Ryuzo Kikushima; Akira Kurosawa) Just say his name Reverend, I know you're dying to. (The Dead Zone; writing credit: Aleksandar Djordjevic) Sorry to bother you, Reverend Lovejoy, but I'm kind of in a tizzy. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Well Reverend, looks like you've got yourself surrounded. (The Searchers; writing credit: Frank S. Nugent) Couldn't we have uniforms, too, Reverend Mother? (The Trouble with Angels; writing credit: Jane Trahey; Blanche Hanalis) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Reverend Billy (2000) | |
Song Titles | Impure Thoughts (performing artist: Reverend Billy C. Wirtz) Right Wing Roundup (performing artist: Reverend Billy C. Wirtz) Song For Judy (performing artist: Reverend Billy C. Wirtz) We Dismember These (performing artist: Reverend Billy C. Wirtz) | |
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 | Figure 2. Hales water sampling bottle. This was designed by Reverend Stephen Hales about 1749 and used on H.M.S. EARL of HALIFAX in 1751 in depths ranging from 100 to 1600 meters. Left: descending. Right: ascending.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Sponsor's party at the ship's launching, at Kewaunee, Wisconsin, 16 April 1944. The sponsor, Mrs. C.L. Duvall, is in the right foreground. She was the mother of Lieutenant C.G. Duvall, USAAC, who had recently been killed in the crash of a bomber. Also present are (from left to right): H.C. Brogan, Vice President and General Manager, Kewaunee Shipbuilding & Engineering Corporation; C.L. Duvall, Mayor of Kewaunee, Wisc.; and The Reverend L.A. Spooner, of the Kewaunee Congregational Church, who delivered the invocation at the ceremonies. FP-344 was later renamed FS-344. Transferred to the Navy in 1966, she became USS Pueblo (AGER-2).Credit: NAVY. |
 | The Reverend John Cotton, leader among early colonial thinkers.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | (Left to right) Reverend John Hutchinson, Arthur Garfield Hayes, Norman Thomas, Reverend George Hollinshead, and Reverend Archie Ball standing on a sound truck at an American Civil Liberties Union mass meeting in celebration of a United States Supreme Cou.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Reverend Bullard, preacher, and family with trailer home. Alexandria, Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Funeral services for Private J. T. Mackall. Services presided over by Reverend J.S.M. Davies, of the British Army. Attending the funeral were Captain W. H. Jacobs, United States Army and medical officer, and first Lieutenant C.O. McCormick. Gibraltar Ceme.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rev. H.P. Wright, principal chaplain to the forces in the Crimea & Reverend Messieurs Wallace, Sykes, Parson, H.A. Taylor, Boudier, Parker, Preston & Crozier.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Reverend Mr. Butler & officers of the 47th Regiment.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Guthrie, William Norman, Reverend, portrait photograph.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait photograph of Reverend Thomas Chalmers.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | [Coming forward] If ancient sorrow be most reverend, Give mine the benefit of seniory, And let my griefs frown on the upper hand. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The deputy, sitting on the ground, raised his gun again and then, suddenly, from the group of men, the Reverend Casy stepped. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Yet perhaps the virtue of those reverend sages was too strict for the corrupt and libertine manners of a court. |
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Civil Liberties | Kyrgyz Republic | The Unification Church was not active in the country, but it had a presence through the charity organization of Reverend Moon's wife. (references) |
Fiji | In the letter, Reverend Kanilagi publicly expressed his intention to use the Methodist Church as a forum under which to unite all ethnic Fijian political parties. (references) | |
Kyrgyz Republic | Government authorities have indicated that they would monitor the activities of the Unification Church, which is led by Reverend Moon, although there were no reports of interference with its activities. (references) | |
Human Rights | Zambia | During the year, a number of citizens remained in self-imposed political exile in foreign countries, including: Liberal Progressive Front President Dr. Roger Chongwe, in Australia; Zambia Democratic Congress General Secretary Azwell Banda, in South Africa; former editor of the defunct newspaper, Confidential, Reverend Steward Mwila, in South Africa; and former President Kaunda's daughter, Catherine Mwanza, in South Africa. (references) |
Minorities | Moldova | This article specifically cited the Muslims and the followers of Reverend Moon. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. In literature, and particularly in poetry, the elements of success are exceedingly simple, and are admirably set forth in the following lines by the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape, entitled, for some mysterious reason, "John A. Joyce." The bard who would prosper must carry a book, Do his thinking in prose and wear A crimson cravat, a far-away look And a head of hexameter hair. Be thin in your thought and your body'll be fat; If you wear your hair long you needn't your hat. |
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Rush Limbaugh | In the upcoming edition of The Limbaugh Letter, I endorse Reverend Al Sharpton for the Democratic presidential nomination. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The next two folks I've had the honor of meeting and getting to know a little bit, the Reverend John and the Reverend Diana Cherry of the AME Zion Church in Temple Hills, Maryland. |
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| "Reverend" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 89.09% of the time. "Reverend" is used about 595 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 89.09% | 530 | 11,551 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.7% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.2% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Total | 100.00% | 595 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "reverend": most reverend ♦ most Reverend Father in God ♦ Reverend Dodgson ♦ reverend father ♦ reverend mother ♦ very Reverend. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "reverend": reverend-who. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "reverend"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كاهن (cassock, clergyman, clerical, cohen, ecclesiastic, minister, parson, presbyter, priest, rector, vicar), موقر (revered, venerable), مبجل (dignified, distinguished, esteemed, glorified, honorable, honourable, reverent, venerable), اكليركي (ecclesiastical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Преподобен, Достопочтен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Velebný (solemn, sublime), Dùstojný (August, dignified, matronly), Ctihodný (honorable, honourable, respectable, ven, venerable, worshipful, worthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Eerwaarde Pater (Rev., Reverend Father), E.P. (Rev., Reverend Father). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | جناب کشیش . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Révérend, Vénérable. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ehrwürdig (dignified, hoar, solemn, venerable, venerably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Αιδεσιμότατοσ, Πάπασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tiszteletre méltó (estimable, honorable, respectable, venerable), tisztelendő, nagytiszteletű (venerable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pendeta (clergyman, parson, pastor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Reverendo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 御坊 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ごぼう (burdock, pentagram). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | arrymagh (respectful, solemn, submissive, venerable, worshipful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | everendray Reverendo, Respeitável (accountable, dignified, estimate, hoary, properly, reputable, respectable, responsible, rightdown, venerable, worshipful, worthy), Venerável (antique, patriarchate, patrician, venerable, worshipful). (various references) Venerabil (patriarchal, venerable, worthy), Preot (Canon, chaplain, clergyman, cleric, curate, devil-dodger, divine, father, incumbent, minister, padre, parson, pastor, pope, preacher, prelate, presbyter, priest, rector, rook, vicar). (various references) преподобие. (various references) urramach. (various references) sveštenik (churchman, clergyman, cleric, ecclesiastic, minister, pastor, priest, vicar), častan (honorable, honourable). (various references) Reverendo (rev.). (various references) Högvördig. (various references) Saygıdeğer (August, christian, considered, esteemed, estimable, honorable, honourable, respectable, venerable, well-considered, worshipful, worthy), Peder (father, pater), Muhterem (August, estimable, honorable, honourable, patriarchal, venerable, worshipful), Din Adamı, Aziz (August, dear, ducky, glorious, mighty, precious, Saint, saintly, st, st.). (various references) Приподобний, Шановний, Шанобливий, Священик (Kirkman). (various references) đáng tôn kính; đáng tôn kính. (various references) parchedig (revered, reverent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | reverendus, reverendus pater, verendus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reverend": reverends. (additional references) | |
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"Reverend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: referend, reverand, reveren, Reveron, revertendi, rev'renc, revrend, rev'rend, Riverbend, Riverina, Rteverand. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reverend" (pronounced re"verund or re"vrund) |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cottoned, cushioned, dampened, darkened, decommissioned, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fashioned, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, likened, listened, livened, loosened, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, millisecond, moistened, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reconditioned, reexamined, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, second, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, stationed, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
| 4 | -r u n d | errand. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cottoned, cushioned, dampened, darkened, decommissioned, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, evened, examined, fashioned, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, likened, listened, livened, loosened, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, millisecond, moistened, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reconditioned, reexamined, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, second, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, stationed, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-n-r-r-v" | |
-1 letter: revered. | |
-2 letters: evened, evener, needer, nerved, reeved, render, revere, veered, vendee, vender, veneer. | |
-3 letters: ender, erred, nerve, never, reeve. | |
-4 letters: deer, dene, dere, dree, erne, even, ever, need, nerd, neve, rede, reed, rend, veer, vend. | |
-5 letters: dee, den, dev, end, ere, ern, err, eve, nee, red, ree, rev, vee. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-n-r-r-v" | |
+1 letter: reverends. | |
+2 letters: reengraved, reverenced, unreserved. | |
+3 letters: overlearned, overrefined, overspender, reconverted, underserved, unrecovered, vinedresser. | |
+4 letters: overburdened, overenamored, overenrolled, overgoverned, overmannered, overspenders, overwintered, peradventure, redelivering, reinnervated, reservedness, unreservedly, vinedressers. | |
+5 letters: overconcerned, overresponded, peradventures, pervertedness, reinterviewed, underachiever. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 76 65 72 65 6E 64 |
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