Usually means: Consideration for feelings, rights, traditions.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. respect: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. respect: Merriam-Webster
  3. respect, respect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. respect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. respect: Collins English Dictionary
  6. respect: Vocabulary.com
  7. Respect, respect: Wordnik
  8. respect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. respect: Wiktionary
  10. respect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. respect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. respect: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Respect, respect: Dictionary.com
  14. respect (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. respect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Respect(song), Respect. (magazine), Respect (Alliance Ethnik song), Respect (Aretha Franklin song), Respect (Daniel Johnston album), Respect (Diana King album), Respect (Jimmy Smith album), Respect (Otis Redding song), Respect (Robyn Hitchcock album), Respect (Shaquille O'Neal album), Respect (TV series), Respect (The Bill), Respect (UEFA campaign), Respect (disambiguation), Respect (song), Respect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Respect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. respect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. respect: Rhymezone
  20. respect, respect (het), respect (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. respect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. respect: FreeDictionary.org
  23. respect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. respect: TheFreeDictionary.com

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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