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UK
/ɛstˈiːmd/
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[ US /ɪˈstimd/ ]
[ US /ɪˈstimd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having an illustrious reputation; respected
a prestigious author
our esteemed leader
How To Use esteemed In A Sentence
- He was called to the Irish bar in 1951 and has earned a reputation as an esteemed playwright, poet and biographer.
- The teacher who can break a mainspring first and keep it from getting mended, is often the most esteemed in the community. The Lost Art of Reading
- When Kwan shocked Hong Kong by coming out, he was already established as one of the city's best filmmakers, esteemed for his finely tuned aesthetics and perfectly realized tragic heroines.
- Besides, he is a highly esteemed reporter who has won many prizes for his books, articles and television documentaries.
- Bvt as it hath bene alwayes reputed a great fault to vse figuratiue speaches foolishly and indiscretly, so is it esteemed no lesse an imperfection in mans vtterance, to haue none vse of figure at all, specially in our writing and speaches publike, making them but as our ordinary talke, then which nothing can be more vnsauourie and farre from all ciuilitie. The Arte of English Poesie
- This second Adam Winthrop, at the age of seventeen, went to London, binding himself as an apprentice for ten years under the well-esteemed and profitable guild of the "clothiers," or cloth-workers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
- The Fund will support research projects intended to lead to an increased understanding of personal factors, social arrangements, social institutions and physical factors affecting the well being of disesteemed or disadvantaged persons.
- For Verve Remixed, the label commissioned electronica acts to remix songs as esteemed as Billie Holiday’s “Don’t Explain” and as bizarre as Tony Scott’s “Hare Krishna.” Disquiet » Industry Standards
- Perhaps I should reconsider or recheck — even if this other is an esteemed marine biologist who does know the difference. The Volokh Conspiracy » Disagreement Need Not Equal Discourtesy
- But I’ve never been one for the male bimbo look, especially when (as the folks at Defamer reported) said male bimbo bares his, ahem, "peen" (to quote my esteemed colleague Michael Slezak), while playing the didgeridoo. The real reason Matthew McConaughey's 'Surfer, Dude' went under | EW.com