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

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  1. venerable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. venerable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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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