# esteem
## English
### Alternative forms

* æsteem (archaic)
* esteeme (obsolete)

### Etymology

First at end of 16th century; borrowed from Middle French estimer, borrowed from Latin aestimō.
See estimate and aim, an older word, partly a doublet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪˈstiːm/, /əˈstiːm/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːm

### Noun

esteem (usually uncountable, plural esteems)
* Assessment, estimation, or regard; especially; favourable estimation or regard.
    We hold her in high esteem.

#### Translations
### Verb

esteem (third-person singular simple present esteems, present participle esteeming, simple past and past participle esteemed)
* To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 36:19:Will he esteem thy riches?
** 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.
* To regard something as valuable; to prize.
* To look upon something in a particular way.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 32:15:Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
** 1535, Edmund Bonner, De vera obedientia by Stephen Gardiner (Preface)
    Thou shouldest (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.
** 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 9, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural.
** 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. V, The English”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):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.
* (dated) To judge; to estimate; to appraise
    The Earth, which I esteem unable to reflect the rays of the Sun.

#### Synonyms

* (to regard with respect): respect, revere
* (to regard as valuable): cherish

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “to regard with respect”): contemn, despise
* (antonym(s) of “to regard as valuable”): scorn, slight

#### Translations
### Derived terms

* disesteem
* esteemable
* esteemer
* estimable
* misesteem
* overesteem
* self-esteem

### References

* John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “esteem”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

### Further reading

* “esteem”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “esteem”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Mestee, mestee

## Galician
### Verb

esteem
* (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) inflection of estear:
** third-person plural present subjunctive
** third-person plural imperative