Usually means: Respect and esteem someone greatly.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word admire:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. admire: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. admire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. admire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. admire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. admire: Vocabulary.com
  6. Admire, admire: Wordnik
  7. admire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Admire, admire: Wiktionary
  9. admire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. admire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. admire: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Admire, admire: Dictionary.com
  13. admire: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Admire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Admire: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. admire: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. admire: Rhymezone
  18. admire: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. admire: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. admire: Free Dictionary
  21. admire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Admire, admire: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. admire: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. admire: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ADMIRE: Acronym Finder
  3. admire: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. admire: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See admired as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
verb:  (transitive) To regard with wonder and delight.
verb:  (transitive) To look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence.
verb:  (transitive) To estimate or value highly; to hold in high esteem.
verb:  (US, dialectal, rare) To be enthusiastic about (doing something); to want or like (to do something). (Sometimes followed by to.)
noun:  A city and town in Kansas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in York County, Pennsylvania.

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