Monday, July 11, 2016

Vocabulary Memory: Esteem; noun

Esteem
əˈstēm/
noun
noun: esteem
  1. 1.
    respect and admiration, typically for a person.
    "he was held in high esteem by colleagues"
verb
verb: esteem; 3rd person present: esteems; past tense: esteemed; past participle: esteemed; gerund or present participle: esteeming
  1. 1.
    respect and admire.
    "many of these qualities are esteemed by managers"
    • formal
      consider; deem.
      "I should esteem it a favor if you could speak to them"
Origin
Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘worth, reputation’): from Old French estime (noun), estimer (verb), from Latin aestimare ‘to estimate.’ The verb was originally in the Latin sense, also ‘appraise’ (compare with estimate), used figuratively to mean ‘assess the merit of.’ Current senses date from the 16th century.
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