esteem
Usage
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To esteem is to feel respect combined with a warm, kindly feeling. To appreciate is to exercise wise judgment, delicate perception, and keen insight in realizing the worth of something. To value is to attach importance to a thing because of its worth (material or otherwise). To prize is to value highly and cherish.
Example Sentences
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Mentoring played a massive part in my upbringing, and sports teachers and coaches were always held in great esteem.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
Not too long ago, “Bridgerton” was held in the highest esteem in the meeting place between TV fantasy and drab reality.
From Salon • Mar. 4, 2026
"Abed loved journalism and held it in high esteem because it documents the truth," his father Samir Shaath told AFP, using his dead son's nickname.
From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026
Born in El Paso, Gloria grew up in L.A.’s Eastside in a family where John F. Kennedy was held in such esteem that one of her nieces was named Jacqueline.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
As Lawrence rose in professional esteem, his social circle came to encompass the banking and oil magnates who had become his financial patrons.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
