respect

noun

1. 1

   An attitude of consideration or high regard; a feeling of admiration or esteem.

   He is an intellectual giant, and I have great respect for him.

2. 2

   Good opinion, honor, or admiration.

3. 3

   Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.

   The mourners paid their last respects to the deceased poet.

4. 4

   A particular aspect, feature or detail of something.

   This year's model is superior to last year's in several respects.

   In our two loves there is but one respect

5. 5

   Good will; favor.

   And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

verb

1. 1

   To have respect for.

   She is an intellectual giant, and I respect her greatly.

2. 2

   To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right.

   I respect your right to hold that belief, although I think it is nonsense.

   I respect your right to feel offended, even though most people, myself included, totally disagree and don’t find the comment offensive in the slightest.

3. 3

   To abide by an agreement.

   They failed to respect the treaty they had signed, and invaded.

4. 4

   To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.

   [T]hou reſpecteſt not ſpilling Edwards bloud: [...]

   We haue also large and various Orchards, and Gardens; Wherein we doe not ſo much reſpect Beauty, as Variety of Ground and Soile, proper for diuerſe Trees and Herbs: [...]

5. 5

   To relate to; to be concerned with.

   Whatever they are else, they are always chastisements; and correction respects faults.

   Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles, or utricles.

   I hope I may never again be in a state of mind so unchristian as the mental frame in which I lived for some weeks, respecting the memory of Master B.

6. 6

   obsoleteTo regard; to consider; to deem.

   [T]his my friend (knowen by no name) was found, / Being then a child and ſcarce of power to ſpeake, / To whom my father gaue this name of Gaſper, / And as his own reſpected him to death, [...]

7. 7

   obsoleteTo look toward; to face.

   That Palladius adviſeth the front of his edifice ſhould ſo reſpect the South, that in the firſt angle it receive the riſing raies of the winter Sunne, and decline a little from the winter ſetting thereof.

interjection

1. 1

   hello, hi

Forms

plural

respects

past tense

respected

past participle

respected

present participle

respecting

third person singular

respects