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revere

/ɹɪˈvɪɹ/verb, noun

revere is a verb meaning “To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-V-E-R-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears 1.2 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does revere mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion.

    a highly revered musician

  2. 2

    To honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g., a saint, or an idol.

noun

  1. 1

    A revers.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce revere?

  • UK /ɹɪˈvɪə(ɹ)/
  • US /ɹɪˈvɪɹ/
  • US /ɹəˈvɪɹ/

Revere has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-revere.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of revere

  • reveres present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • revering participle, present
  • revered participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is revere?

Revere appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Revere in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchidolâtrer, révérer (regard someone or something with great awe or…)
Germanverehren (regard someone or something with great awe or…), anbeten (venerate someone or something as an idol)
Portuguesereverenciar (regard someone or something with great awe or…)
Spanishreverenciar (regard someone or something with great awe or…), idolatrar (venerate someone or something as an idol)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does revere come from?

Borrowed from French révérer, ultimately from Latin revereor, from re- + vereor (“to fear”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).