venerable

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, mas

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.

Ancient, antiquated or archaic.

• And then bills were sent in, and the question arose, what could Jude do with his great-aunt's heavy old furniture if he left the town to travel he knew not whither? This, and the necessity of ready money, compelled him to decide on an aucti

Made sacred especially by religious or historical association.

Giving an impression of aged goodness and benevolence.