If you revere someone or something, you respect and admire them greatly. The Chinese revered corn as a gift from heaven + revered re·vered some of the country's most revered institutions. American silversmith, engraver, and Revolutionary hero. On April 18, 1775, he made his famous ride, celebrated in a poem by Longfellow, to warn of the British advance on Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. to respect and admire someone or something very much be revered as sth (revereri, from vereri )
American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818)