RESPECT | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of respect in English respectnoun uk /rɪˈspekt/ us /rɪˈspekt/

respect noun (ADMIRATION)

Add to word list Add to word list B1 [ U ] admiration felt or shown for someone or something that you believe has good ideas or qualities: I have great/the greatest respect for his ideas, although I don't agree with them. She is a formidable figure who commands a great deal of respect (= who is greatly admired by others). New teachers have to earn/gain the respect of their students. See also self-respect

• He inspired respect and devotion from his pupils.
• She won the grudging respect of her boss.
• You should show more respect to your parents.
• He has no respect for authority whatsoever.
• Certainly in our society teachers don't enjoy the respect that is accorded to doctors and lawyers.

Showing respect and admiration

• admiration
• admire
• admiring
• admiringly
• approving
• approvingly
• fulsome
• fulsomely
• fulsomeness
• glorify
• grovelling
• hallow
• pay your respects idiom
• philogynist
• philogyny
• put someone on a pedestal idiom
• regard someone/something highly
• regild
• woof
• worshipful

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respect noun (HONOUR)

B1 [ U ] politeness, honour, and care shown towards someone or something that is considered important: You really should treat your parents with more respect. She has no respect for other people's property (= she does not treat it carefully). [ U ] a feeling that something is right or important and you should not attempt to change it or harm it: In their senseless killing of innocent people, the terrorists have shown their lack of respect for human life. She grumbled that young people today have/show no respect for the law. [ U ] the feeling you show when you accept that different customs or cultures are different from your own and behave towards them in a way that would not cause offence: She teaches the students to have respect for different races and appreciate the diversity of other cultures.  someone's respects formal polite formal greetings: convey your respects to Please convey my respects to your parents.give your respects to Please give my respects to Mr Taylor when you see him. If you see Mrs Morris at the event, do convey my respects. I know my mother would want me to convey her respects. Klara asked me to give her respects to you.

• These days it goes against the grain to show respect for authority.
• Certainly in our society teachers don't enjoy the respect that is accorded to doctors and lawyers.
• Children need to be taught to have respect for other people's property.
• He has no respect for authority whatsoever.
• You should show your parents more respect.

Polite and respectful

• candy-coat
• candy-coated
• chivalric
• chivalrous
• chivalrously
• courtly
• couth
• deferential
• deferentially
• euphemism for someone/something
• graciously
• graciousness
• hyper-civilized
• keep a civil tongue in your head idiom
• manner
• sugarcoat
• super-polite
• tactful
• tactfully
• ultra-civilized

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Accepting & agreeing Meeting people

respect noun (FEATURE)

B2 [ C ] a particular feature or detail: This proposal differs from the last one in many important respects/one important respect. In most respects, the new film is better than the original.

• The new version is worse in every respect - I much preferred the original.
• It is arguable that the government has failed in this respect.
• His theory is deficient in several respects.
• It's essentially a dictionary but it differs in one or two respects.
• While I accept that he's not perfect in many respects, I do actually quite like the man.

Conditions and characteristics

• -ance
• ability
• adverse conditions
• age
• ambience
• appearance
• aspect
• DNA
• formatively
• good/bad karma idiom
• have it in you idiom
• hood
• presentation
• shape
• someone's/something's former self
• stock-in-trade
• trait
• trappings
• unaffiliated
• undercurrent

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Idioms

in respect of something pay your respects with (all due) respect respectverb [ T ] uk /rɪˈspekt/ us /rɪˈspekt/

respect verb [T] (ADMIRE)

B1 to feel or show admiration for someone or something that you believe has good ideas or qualities: I deeply respect David for what he has achieved. to admire someone or something

• admireI've always admired her for her generous spirit.
• respectI respect her for what she has achieved, but I would have approached it very differently.
• think highly ofEveryone thinks highly of him.
• hold someone in high esteemHer colleagues in Washington hold her in very high esteem.
• hold someone in high regardHe contributed much to the life of York, and was held in high regard there.
• look up toShe was my older sister and I looked up to her.

See more results »  respect yourself to be proud of your own qualities or achievements: If you don't respect yourself, how can you expect others to respect you? I like to think I've raised my daughter to respect herself. I just knew that if I didn't take a stand and say something, I'd never be able to respect myself. He has a sense of his own worth - he respects himself. The whole experience has taught me to respect myself.

• It was a sane decision and one we all respected.
• All non-violent religious and political beliefs should be respected equally.
• Visitors are asked to respect the rules of the organization.
• We must respect the rights of sovereign nations to conduct their own affairs.
• David was brought up to respect authority.

Showing respect and admiration

• admiration
• admire
• admiring
• admiringly
• approving
• approvingly
• fulsome
• fulsomely
• fulsomeness
• glorify
• grovelling
• hallow
• pay your respects idiom
• philogynist
• philogyny
• put someone on a pedestal idiom
• regard someone/something highly
• regild
• woof
• worshipful

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Confidence & self-assurance

respect verb [T] (HONOUR)

to treat something or someone with kindness and care: to respect someone's feelings We should respect the environment and not pollute it. B2 to accept the importance of someone's rights or customs and to do nothing that would harm them or cause offence: The agreement will respect the rights of both nations. I would appreciate it if you would respect my privacy. to accept that something is right or important and not to attempt to change it or harm it: The president pledged to respect the existing frontiers between the two countries. to think that it is important to obey a law or rule: I was always taught to respect the law.  respect someone's wishes B2 to do what someone has asked to have done: respect someone's last wishes His children respected his last wishes and held a simple funeral for him. See more Treating someone well

• allowance
• be spoilt for choice idiom
• coddle
• cosset
• do as you would be done by idiom
• do someone proud idiom
• make much/a lot of someone idiom
• mollycoddle
• mother
• non-exploitative
• nurture
• pampered
• pander to someone/something phrasal verb
• proud
• see someone right idiom
• smother
• spoil
• wet nurse
• wrap
• wrap someone (up) in cotton wool idiom

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Accepting & agreeing (Definition of respect from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

respect | American Dictionary

respectnoun us /rɪˈspekt/

respect noun (ADMIRATION)

Add to word list Add to word list [ U ] admiration for someone or something that you believe has good ideas or qualities: I believe people had more respect for teachers back then.

respect noun (POLITE ATTITUDE)

[ U ] the polite attitude shown toward someone or something that you consider important: Some drivers don’t have any respect for other motorists. [ U ] Respects are polite expressions of greeting or sympathy: [ pl ] Give my respects to your parents. [ pl ] We stopped by the funeral home to pay our respects.

respect noun (FEATURE)

[ C ] a particular feature or detail: In some respects, I had to admit, I had behaved foolishly.

respectful

adjective us /rɪˈspekt·fəl/ The protestors were respectful and polite.

respectfully

adverb us /rɪˈspekt·fə·li/ Most old acquaintances address him respectfully as "Governor." respectverb [ T ] us /rɪˈspekt/

respect verb [T] (ADMIRATION)

to admire an ability or good quality, or to admire someone for the ability or qualities that person has: While I respected his deep knowledge of American history, he wasn’t a very effective teacher. (Definition of respect from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

respect | Business English

respectnoun [ U ] uk /rɪˈspekt/ us  in respect of Add to word list Add to word list (also with respect to) in connection with something: Legislation will be introduced in respect of the proposals in the Finance Bill. FINANCE in order to pay for something: I have arranged a bank transfer in respect of your invoice for January. (Definition of respect from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of respect

respect Qualitative and quantitative measures of the business environment are statistically strongly and significantly correlated with respect to their effects on business performance (ibid.). From the Cambridge English Corpus Thus, there is a qualitative difference between the outcome of language contact with respect to at least one point: the past participles. From the Cambridge English Corpus This implies that a weak solution is physically relevant with respect to both models at the same time. From the Cambridge English Corpus The generating extension takes the values classified as static as parameters and returns the source program specialized with respect to these values. From the Cambridge English Corpus Note that (2.19)is trivially satisfied a t i = 1, and thus it must be replaced with its derivative with respect to arclength. From the Cambridge English Corpus The opposite direction of this implication, that is, the completeness of the logical relations with respect to contextual equivalence remains future work. From the Cambridge English Corpus In this respect the building's technical failings have disappointed the client and many users. From the Cambridge English Corpus The authors' grading scheme is telling in this respect. From the Cambridge English Corpus Patients assigned to the ' generalized eating disorder ' cluster were rated as having more severe symptoms in almost every respect except weight. From the Cambridge English Corpus If they are reasons to respect one's children, then they apply only to people who have children. From the Cambridge English Corpus In other respects, however, the data are less than convincing and do not allow a straightforward inter pretation. From the Cambridge English Corpus They all gained some position of status, never mind how, sufficient to win the respect of the general public. From the Cambridge English Corpus Thus understood, conscience is unobjectionable but can claim no special dignity or respect. From the Cambridge English Corpus Unlike the smooth expanding maps treated just above, such maps are in general not structurally or measure-theoretically stable with respect to deterministic perturbations. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations with respect

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deep respectAlongside this, he maintains professional neutrality as his physician's stance toward others, based on deep respect for their humanity, irrespective of their personal convictions. From the Cambridge English Corpus   due respectIn this article we will show the importance of historical-contextual explanations which pay due respect to the national-specific development, when comparing different countries. From the Cambridge English Corpus   enormous respectThe theory section gives me an enormous respect for the value of historical research. From the Cambridge English Corpus   These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with respect What is the pronunciation of respect?

Translations of respect

in Chinese (Traditional) 欽佩, 敬重, 尊重… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 钦佩, 敬重, 尊重… See more in Spanish admiración, respeto, sentido… See more in Portuguese respeito, respeitar, respeito [masculine]… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian आदर, मान, कदर… See more 礼儀正しさ, 丁寧さ, 尊敬… See more saygı, hürmet, hayranlık… See more respect [masculine], estime [feminine], respecter… See more respecte, admiració, admirar… See more respect, eerbied, opzicht… See more போற்றுதல் ஒருவருக்கு அல்லது நல்ல யோசனைகள் அல்லது குணங்கள் இருப்பதாக நீங்கள் நம்பும் ஒன்றுக்கு உணரப்பட்டது அல்லது காட்டப்பட்டுள்ளது, பணிவு, மரியாதை மற்றும் ஒருவரிடம் காட்டப்படும் கவனிப்பு அல்லது முக்கியமானதாகக் கருதப்படும் ஒன்று… See more आदर, सम्मान, अलग- अलग रीति- रिवाज़ों या संस्कृतियों का सम्मान… See more આદર, સન્માન, સંદર્ભ… See more agtelse, respekt, henseende… See more respekt, avseende, respektera… See more rasa hormat, hormat, sifat… See more die Achtung, der Respekt, die Hinsicht… See more respekt [masculine], respektere, ta hensyn… See more عزت, احترام, شائستگی… See more пошана, повага, відношення… See more మంచి ఆలోచనలు లేదా గుణాలు ఉన్నాయని మీరు నమ్మే ఎవరినైనా లేదా దేనినైనా మెచ్చుకోవడం లేదా మెచ్చుకోలు చూపించడం, గౌరవం/ ముఖ్యమైనది లేదా ముఖ్యమైనవారుగా భావించే దేనిపట్లనైనా లేదా ఎవరిపట్ల అయినా మర్యాద, గౌరవం… See more শ্রদ্ধা, সম্মান, শ্রদ্ধা করা… See more obdiv, respekt, úcta… See more rasa hormat, segi, mengagumi… See more ความนับถือ, ความเคารพ, ประเด็น… See more sự kính trọng, sự lưu tâm, khía cạnh… See more szacunek, respekt, szanować… See more 존경, 정중, 존경하다… See more rispetto, rispettare, aspetto… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of respect

• self-respect
• command respect
• with (all due) respect idiom
• respect someone's wishes phrase
• in respect of something idiom
• with all due respect idiom
• with (the greatest) respect, at with (all due) respect idiom

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• with (all due) respect idiom
• respect someone's wishes phrase
• in respect of something idiom
• with all due respect idiom
• with (the greatest) respect, at with (all due) respect idiom
• with respect to something, at in respect of something idiom

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• English   
  • Noun 
    • respect (ADMIRATION)
    • respect (HONOUR)
    • someone's respects
    • respect (FEATURE)
  • Verb 
    • respect (ADMIRE)
    • respect yourself
    • respect (HONOUR)
    • respect someone's wishes
• American   
  • Noun 
    • respect (ADMIRATION)
    • respect (POLITE ATTITUDE)
    • respect (FEATURE)
  • Adjective 
    • respectful
  • Adverb 
    • respectfully
  • Verb 
    • respect (ADMIRATION)
• Business   
  • Noun 
    • in respect of
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