ESTEEMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does esteemed mean? 

• ESTEEMED (adjective)
  The adjective ESTEEMED has 1 sense:

1. having an illustrious reputation; respected

  Familiarity information: ESTEEMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESTEEMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an illustrious reputation; respected

Synonyms:

esteemed; honored; prestigious

Context example:

a prestigious author

Similar:

reputable (having a good reputation)

 Context examples 

I told him how I esteemed his good-nature; and said that his hair must have taken all the obstinacy out of his character, for he had none.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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)

Justine, whom I loved and esteemed as my sister, how could she put on those smiles of innocence only to betray?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Perhaps she pitied and esteemed him the more because he was slighted by Willoughby and Marianne, who, prejudiced against him for being neither lively nor young, seemed resolved to undervalue his merits.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

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

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But the last of these is wholly applied to what may be useful in life, to the improvement of agriculture, and all mechanical arts; so that among us, it would be little esteemed.

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

The Baronet will never set the Thames on fire, but there seems to be no harm in him.—reciprocal compliments, which would have been esteemed about equal.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

If he had never esteemed my opinion before, he would have thought highly of me then; and, I dare say, left the house thinking me the best friend and counsellor man ever had.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It happened that the cat met the fox in a forest, and as she thought to herself: “He is clever and full of experience, and much esteemed in the world,” she spoke to him in a friendly way.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He never spoke of himself, and no one ever knew that in his native city he had been a man much honored and esteemed for learning and integrity, till a countryman came to see him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)