REVERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Revere mean? 

• REVERE (noun)
  The noun REVERE has 2 senses:

1. American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818)

2. a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side

  Familiarity information: REVERE used as a noun is rare.

• REVERE (verb)
  The verb REVERE has 2 senses:

1. love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol

2. regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of

  Familiarity information: REVERE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVERE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Paul Revere; Revere

Instance hypernyms:

American Revolutionary leader (a nationalist leader in the American Revolution and in the creation of the United States)

silver-worker; silversmith; silverworker (someone who makes or repairs articles of silver)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

revere; revers

Hypernyms ("revere" is a kind of...):

lapel (lap at the front of a coat; continuation of the coat collar)

• REVERE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they revere    ... he / she / it reveres   
Past simple: revered   
Past participle: revered   
-ing form: revering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

hero-worship; idolise; idolize; revere; worship

Context example:

Many teenagers idolized the Beatles

Hypernyms (to "revere" is one way to...):

adore (love intensely)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "revere"):

drool over; slobber over (envy without restraint)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot revere Sue

Derivation:

reverence (a reverent mental attitude)

reverent (showing great reverence for god)

reverent (feeling or showing profound respect or veneration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

fear; revere; reverence; venerate

Context example:

We venerate genius

Hypernyms (to "revere" is one way to...):

esteem; prise; prize; respect; value (regard highly; think much of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "revere"):

enshrine; saint (hold sacred)

worship (show devotion to (a deity))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

reverence (a feeling of profound respect for someone or something)

reverent (showing great reverence for god)

reverent (feeling or showing profound respect or veneration)

 Context examples 

You, a man who should have been Regius Professor at a great University with a thousand students all revering you.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So he lived and so he died, the most revered and the happiest man in all his native shire.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had found the law a most unprofitable study, and was now absolutely resolved on being ordained, if I would present him to the living in question—of which he trusted there could be little doubt, as he was well assured that I had no other person to provide for, and I could not have forgotten my revered father's intentions.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I do not hope that any love and duty I may render in return, will ever make me worthy of your priceless confidence; but with all this knowledge fresh upon me, I can lift my eyes to this dear face, revered as a father's, loved as a husband's, sacred to me in my childhood as a friend's, and solemnly declare that in my lightest thought I have never wronged you; never wavered in the love and the fidelity I owe you!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Whereas I hold, shouted the other, with my revered preceptor, doctor, praeclarus et excellentissimus, that all things are but thought; for when thought is gone I prythee where are the things then?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)