esteem

noun

/ɪˈstiːm/

[uncountable] (formal)

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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.
see also self-esteem
Extra Examples
- 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
- the status of teachers in the public esteem
Topics Opinion and argumentc2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- great
- high
- low
- …
verb + esteem
- earn
- enjoy
- have
- …
preposition
- in… esteem
- esteem for
- esteem of
- …
phrases
- 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.

esteem

verb

/ɪˈstiːm/

(formal) not used in the progressive tenses

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they esteem	/ɪˈstiːm/ /ɪˈstiːm/
he / she / it esteems	/ɪˈstiːmz/ /ɪˈstiːmz/
past simple esteemed	/ɪˈstiːmd/ /ɪˈstiːmd/
past participle esteemed	/ɪˈstiːmd/ /ɪˈstiːmd/
past simple esteeming	/ɪˈstiːmɪŋ/ /ɪˈstiːmɪŋ/
past participle esteeming	/ɪˈstiːmɪŋ/ /ɪˈstiːmɪŋ/

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[usually passive] to respect and admire somebody/something very much
- be esteemed (by somebody) Many of these qualities are esteemed by managers.
- a highly esteemed scientist
- be esteemed as something He was esteemed as a dedicated and imaginative scholar.
- be esteemed among somebody This rose is esteemed among connoisseurs for its colour and scent.
esteem somebody/something + noun (old-fashioned, formal) to think of somebody/something in a particular way
- We esteem it a privilege to have you with us.
- She was esteemed the perfect novelist.
Topics Opinion and argumentc2

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.