Usually means: Consideration for feelings, rights, traditions.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word respect:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. respect: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. respect, respect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. respect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. respect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. respect: Vocabulary.com
  6. Respect, respect: Wordnik
  7. respect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. respect: Wiktionary
  9. respect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. respect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. respect: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Respect, respect: Dictionary.com
  13. respect (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. respect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Respect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. respect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. respect: Rhymezone
  19. respect, respect (het), respect (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. respect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. respect: Free Dictionary
  22. respect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. respect: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. respect: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. respect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. respect: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. RESPECT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. respect: Idioms
  4. respect: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. respect: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. r.e.s.p.e.c.t: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) an attitude of consideration or high regard
noun:  (uncountable) good opinion, honor, or admiration
noun:  (uncountable, always plural) Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.
noun:  (countable) a particular aspect, feature or detail of something
noun:  Good will; favor
verb:  To have respect for.
verb:  To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right.
verb:  To abide by an agreement.
verb:  To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.
verb:  (transitive, dated except in "respecting") To relate to; to be concerned with.
verb:  (obsolete) To regard; to consider; to deem.
verb:  (obsolete) To look toward; to face.

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