• IPA: [ɛsˈtiːm]

esteem (uncountable)

1. Favourable regard.

• French: estime, respect
• German: Achtung, Ansehen, Wertschätzung
• Italian: stima
• Portuguese: estima
• Russian: уваже́ние
• Spanish: estima

esteem (esteems, present participle esteeming; past and past participle esteemed)

1. To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Job 36:19 ↗:

     Will he esteem thy riches?

   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 2024748 ↗, (please specify ):

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     You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.

2. To regard something as valuable; to prize.
3. To look upon something in a particular way.

   Mary is an esteemed member of the community.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Deuteronomy 32:15 ↗:

     Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

   • Thou shouldst (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.

   • Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural.

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. V, The English

     And greatly do I respect the solid character, — a blockhead, thou wilt say; yes, but a well- conditioned blockhead, and the best-conditioned, — who esteems all ‘Customs once solemnly acknowledged’ to be ultimate, divine, and the rule for a man to walk by, nothing doubting, not inquiring farther.

4. (obsolete) To judge; to estimate; to appraise

   The Earth, which I esteem unable to reflect the rays of the Sun.

• (to regard with respect) respect, revere
• (to regard as valuable) cherish

• (to regard with respect) contemn, despise
• (to regard as valuable) scorn, slight

• French: respecter
• German: schätzen, ansehen, achten
• Portuguese: estimar
• Russian: уважа́ть

• Russian: цени́ть