different between venerable vs storied

English

Etymology

From Middle French vénérable, from Old French, from Latin venerabilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?n???bl/, /?v?n??bl/

Adjective

venerable (comparative more venerable, superlative most venerable)

1. Commanding respect because of age, dignity, character or position.
2. Worthy of reverence.
3. Ancient, antiquated or archaic.
4. Made sacred especially by religious or historical association.
5. Giving an impression of aged goodness and benevolence.

Synonyms

• (worthy of reverence): honorable, respectable
• (ancient, antiquated, archaic): aged, dated, hoary; see also Thesaurus:old or Thesaurus:obsolete

Antonyms

• (worthy of reverence): contemptible

Translations

Spanish

Adjective

venerable (plural venerables)

1. venerable

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st???id/

Alternative forms

• storeyed (UK, sense 3)

Adjective

storied (comparative more storied, superlative most storied)

1. much talked or written about
2. historical
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3

     Some were storied weapons. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.

3. (chiefly US) having multiple storeys; multistoried
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture

     We mean a porch, or cloister, or the like, of one contignation, and not in storied buildings.

Verb

storied

1. simple past tense and past participle of story

Anagrams

• destroi, doiters, editors, oestrid, ostreid, roisted, sortied, steroid, tie rods, tierods, triodes