ESTEEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does esteem mean? 

• ESTEEM (noun)
  The noun ESTEEM has 3 senses:

1. the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded)

2. a feeling of delighted approval and liking

3. an attitude of admiration or esteem

  Familiarity information: ESTEEM used as a noun is uncommon.

• ESTEEM (verb)
  The verb ESTEEM has 2 senses:

1. regard highly; think much of

2. look on as or consider

  Familiarity information: ESTEEM used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESTEEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

esteem; regard; respect

Context example:

a man who has earned high regard

Hypernyms ("esteem" is a kind of...):

honor; honour; laurels (the state of being honored)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "esteem"):

stature (high level of respect gained by impressive development or achievement)

Antonym:

disesteem (the state in which esteem has been lost)

Derivation:

esteem (regard highly; think much of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A feeling of delighted approval and liking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

admiration; esteem

Hypernyms ("esteem" is a kind of...):

liking (a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "esteem"):

Anglophilia (admiration for Britain and British customs)

hero worship (admiration for great men (or their memory))

philhellenism (admiration for Greece and the Greeks and Greek customs)

philogyny (admiration for women)

Derivation:

esteem (regard highly; think much of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An attitude of admiration or esteem

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

esteem; regard; respect

Context example:

she lost all respect for him

Hypernyms ("esteem" is a kind of...):

attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "esteem"):

estimate; estimation (the respect with which a person is held)

Derivation:

esteem (regard highly; think much of)

• ESTEEM (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they esteem    ... he / she / it esteems   
Past simple: esteemed   
Past participle: esteemed   
-ing form: esteeming   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Regard highly; think much of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

esteem; prise; prize; respect; value

Context example:

We prize his creativity

Hypernyms (to "esteem" is one way to...):

consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "esteem"):

think the world of (esteem very highly)

fear; revere; reverence; venerate (regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of)

admire; look up to (feel admiration for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot esteem Sue

Antonym:

disesteem (have little or no respect for; hold in contempt)

Derivation:

esteem (an attitude of admiration or esteem)

esteem (a feeling of delighted approval and liking)

esteem (the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Look on as or consider

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

be known as; esteem; know as; look on; look upon; regard as; repute; take to be; think of

Context example:

He is reputed to be intelligent

Hypernyms (to "esteem" is one way to...):

believe; conceive; consider; think (judge or regard; look upon; judge)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Nothing could replace him, therefore, in her former esteem, nor injure the interests of Colonel Brandon.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Weston was the object of a regard which had its basis in gratitude and esteem.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The book treats of the weakness of human kind, and is in little esteem, except among the women and the vulgar.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I shall esteem it an honour to be presented.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A question about whether an individual has or had low self-esteem because of their swallowing problem.

(Have Low Self-Esteem due to Swallowing Problem, NCI Thesaurus)

There are such clergymen, no doubt, but I think they are not so common as to justify Miss Crawford in esteeming it their general character.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I never loved, I never esteemed, I did not even know her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Depend upon it, whatever esteem Mr Elliot may have for his own situation in life now, as a young man he had not the smallest value for it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Ay, and for your own sake, he added, for if a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine to-day.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Oh! certainly, cried his faithful assistant, no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)