Usually means: Deserving respect due to age.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word venerable:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. venerable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. venerable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. venerable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. venerable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. venerable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Venerable, venerable: Wordnik
  7. Venerable, venerable, the Venerable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Venerable, venerable: Wiktionary
  9. venerable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. venerable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. venerable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. venerable: Dictionary.com
  13. venerable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. venerable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Venerable, Venerable (Catholicism), Venerable (album), Venerable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Venerable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. venerable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. venerable: Rhymezone
  19. venerable, venerable, vnrable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. venerable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Venerable: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. venerable: Free Dictionary
  23. venerable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. venerable: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. venerable: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. venerable: Legal dictionary

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  1. venerable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. venerable: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Commanding respect because of age, dignity, character or position.
adjective:  Worthy of reverence.
adjective:  Ancient, antiquated or archaic.
adjective:  Made sacred especially by religious or historical association.
adjective:  Giving an impression of aged goodness and benevolence.
adjective:  A form of address for an archdeacon in the Anglican Church
adjective:  The description in the Roman Catholic Church of someone in the first stages of canonisation
adjective:  The description of some saints in the Eastern Orthodox Church
noun:  (Singapore) A title indicating respect, prefixed to the names of Buddhist monks and nuns.

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