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# reverend

«reverend» in Mova's school dictionary: **Deserving deep respect, as a wise or holy person does** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (no comparative); noun (the Reverend)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Deserving deep respect, as a wise or holy person does. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reverend/#m1)

2) A title for a priest or minister: «the Reverend Smith» or «reverend father». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reverend/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons, an adjective for a respected holy person; in old tales, a way of speaking to a priest

### examples

- The reverend father blessed the village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reverend/#x1)
- We listened to the reverend old man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reverend/#x2)
- The Reverend Brown gave the talk at church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reverend/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «reverend» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reverend/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.