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esteemed

[ ih-steemd ]

adjective

  1. regarded highly or favorably; respected or admired:

    Her teaching ability, leadership skills, and winsome personality made her a highly esteemed member of the school staff.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of esteem.

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Other Words From

  • un·es·teemed adjective
  • well-es·teemed adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of esteemed1

First recorded in 1545–55; esteem + -ed 2( def ) for the adjective; esteem + -ed 1( def ) for the verb

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Example Sentences

And why would the Innocence Project, an esteemed group dedicated to freeing the wrongly imprisoned, have framed an innocent man?

Theda Skocpol, the esteemed Harvard social scientist, agrees with Cohen that they will set up the exchanges.

An esteemed historian of Southern culinary culture, Ferris had all the utensils to do some serious carving on Paula Deen.

“My esteemed mentor, Boris Fruman, showed us 100 slides of stills from films,” says Granik.

Ross is an esteemed paleontologist and university professor.

He was afterwards a member of the Massachusetts senate, and much esteemed as a physician and a patriot.

He was professor of oriental languages; his dissertations on various subjects of criticism and antiquity were highly esteemed.

Louis Bourdaloue died; esteemed the best preacher that France ever produced.

The trader smiled knowingly, for he knew that the major esteemed himself the best.

His directors esteemed him highly, and the officers of the company were all sincerely attached to him.

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