Usually means: Respects and holds in high esteem.
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  1. admires: Merriam-Webster
  2. admires: Collins English Dictionary
  3. admires: Vocabulary.com
  4. Admires, admires: Wordnik
  5. admires: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. admires: Wiktionary
  7. admires: Dictionary.com
  8. admires: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. admires: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. admires: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. admires: Idioms

(Note: See admire as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Admire)

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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