esteem
noun/ɪˈstiːm/
/ɪˈstiːm/
[uncountable] (formal)- great respect and approval; a good opinion of somebody
- She is held in high esteem by her colleagues.
- Over the years, he has earned our affection and esteem.
- Please accept this small gift as a token of our esteem.
Extra ExamplesTopics Opinion and argumentc2- Her work has been steadily gaining critical esteem in recent years.
- I have great esteem for you.
- I needed to do it for my own personal esteem.
- Recent reviews of her work have raised her esteem.
- We parted with expressions of mutual esteem.
- the high public esteem now enjoyed by the armed forces
- the level of social esteem accorded to doctors
- the public's esteem for the president
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
- high
- low
- …
- earn
- enjoy
- have
- …
- in… esteem
- esteem for
- esteem of
- …
- hold somebody/something in great, high, low, etc. esteem
- a mark of esteem
- a token of esteem
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Word OriginMiddle 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 cent.
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