Commanding respect because of age, dignity, character or position.
Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
Worthy of reverence.
We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the pacific yet august light of abiding memories.
A form of address for an archdeacon in the Anglican Church.
A title indicating respect, prefixed to the names of Buddhist monks and nuns.
From Middle French vénérable, from Old French, from Latin venerabilis.
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