esteem

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

es·teem [esteem esteems esteemed esteeming] noun, verb BrE [ɪˈstiːm] NAmE [ɪˈstiːm]
noun uncountable (formal)
great respect and admiration; a good opinion of sb
•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

Word 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 cent.

Example Bank:
•He had lost all of his personal esteem.
•He is held in the highest esteem by all who know him.
•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.
•It is easy for children to lose their self-esteem.
•Recent reviews of her work have raised her esteem.
•She had earned the esteem of everyone in the town.
•The school's aim is to build the self-esteem of the children.
•We parted with expressions of mutual esteem.
•We would like to offer you this gift as a mark of our 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

 
verb (formal) (not used in the progressive tenses)
1. usually passive ~ sb/sth to respect and admire sb/sth very much
•a highly esteemed scientist
•Many of these qualities are esteemed by managers.
•He was esteemed as a dedicated and imaginative scholar.
•This rose is esteemed among connoisseurs for its colour and scent.
2. ~ sb/sth + noun (old-fashioned, formal)to think of sb/sth in a particular way
•She was esteemed the perfect novelist.
Verb forms:

Word 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 cent.

Example Bank:
•She was a highly esteemed scientist.

 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  respect, regard, admiration, think of, repute, regard as, look upon, look on, take to be, value, prize, prise
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  disrespect, disesteem