From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en] [archaic]
- [en] [obsolete]
*** Etymology
First at end of 16th century; [en], [en].
See [en] and [en], an older word, partly a [doublet].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[-]
1. Assessment , estimation [,] or regard ; especially; favourable estimation or regard.
**** Translations
[favourable regard]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Nahuatl: [nah]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota] , [ota]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
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*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence .
2. * [Job]
3. * {{ RQ:Tennyson Princess
|passage=You talk kindlier: we ESTEEM you for it.}}
1. To regard something as valuable ; to prize .
2. To look upon something in a particular way.
3. * [Deuteronomy]
4. * 1535 , [Edmund Bonner] , _De vera obedientia_ by Stephen Gardiner (Preface)
5. *: Thou shouldest (gentle reader) ESTEEM his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.
6. * [9]
7. * [3]
8. [en] To judge ; to estimate ; to appraise
**** Synonyms
- [to regard with respect] [en] , [en]
- [to regard as valuable] [en]
**** Antonyms
- [to regard with respect] [en] , [en]
- [to regard as valuable] [en] , [en]
**** Translations
[to regard with respect]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el] , [el] , [el]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Latin: [la]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[to regard as valuable]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Maori: [mi]
- Piedmontese: [pms]
- Russian: [ru]
- Swedish: [sv]
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*** Derived terms
{{col|en|disesteem|esteemable|esteemer|estimable|misesteem|overesteem
|self-esteem}}
*** References
- [R:OED2]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Galician
*** Verb
[gl]
1. [estear]