Treasure vs Esteem - What's the difference?
treasure | esteem |
(uncountable) A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island) Chapter 20
(countable) Anything greatly valued.
* Bible, Exodus xix. 5
* 1681 , (Nahum Tate), (The History of King Lear)
* 1946 , (Ernest Tubb), Filipino Baby
(countable)
* 1922 , (Francis Rufus Bellamy), A Flash of Gold
(of a person or thing) To consider to be precious.
* 19th century , (Eliza Cook),
To store or stow in a safe place.
* 1825 , (Walter Scott),
favourable regard
To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.
* Bible, Job xxxvi. 19
* Tennyson
To regard something as valuable; to prize.
To look upon something in a particular way.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 15
* Bishop Gardiner
* Hawthorne
* 1843 , '', book 3, ch. V, ''The English
(obsolete) To judge; to estimate; to appraise
As nouns the difference between treasure and esteem
is that treasure is (uncountable) a collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc while esteem is favourable regard.As verbs the difference between treasure and esteem
is that treasure is (of a person or thing) to consider to be precious while esteem is to set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.treasure
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Alternative forms
* treasuer (chiefly archaic)Noun
- "Now," resumed Silver, "here it is. You give us the chart to get the treasure' by, and drop shooting poor seamen and stoving of their heads in while asleep. You do that, and we'll offer you a choice. Either you come aboard along of us, once the ' treasure shipped, and then I'll give you my affy-davy, upon my word of honour, to clap you somewhere safe ashore.
- Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me.
- I found the whole to answer your Account of it, a Heap of Jewels, unstrung and unpolisht; yet so dazling in their Disorder, that I soon perceiv'd I had seiz'd a Treasure .
- She's my Filipino baby she's my treasure and my pet
- Her teeth are bright and pearly and her hair is black as jet
- "Hello, Treasure ," he said without turning round. For a second she hesitated, standing in the soft light of the lamp, the deep blue of the rug making a background for her, the black fur collar of her coat framing the vivid beauty of her face.
Verb
(treasur)- Oh, this ring is beautiful! I’ll treasure it forever.
- I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare
- To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ?
- I've treasured it long as a sainted prize ;
- I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs.
- The rose-buds, withered as they were, were still treasured under his cuirass, and nearest to his heart.
Derived terms
* buried treasure * intreasure * national treasure * treasure chest * treasure flower * treasure house * treasure hunt * treasure map * treasure ship * treasure trove * treasurable * treasurer * treasuress * treasureless * treasurelike * treasury * untreasureAnagrams
*esteem
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Alternative forms
* (archaic) * esteeme (obsolete)Noun
(-)Derived terms
* self-esteemVerb
(en verb)- Will he esteem thy riches?
- You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.
- Mary is an esteemed member of the community.
- Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
- Thou shouldst (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.
- Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural.
- And greatly do I respect the solid character, — a blockhead, thou wilt say; yes, but a well- conditioned blockhead, and the best-conditioned, — who esteems all ‘Customs once solemnly acknowledged’ to be ultimate, divine, and the rule for a man to walk by, nothing doubting, not inquiring farther.
- The Earth, which I esteem unable to reflect the rays of the Sun.