respectable
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respectable (comparative more respectable, superlative most respectable)
- Deserving respect.
- His accomplishments, morals, loyalty, and stature make him a respectable person.
- 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
- In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
- Decent; satisfactory.
- Turn up to the interview wearing something respectable. She plays a respectable game of chess. He got a respectable B+ on his last exam.
- Moderately well-to-do.
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deserving respect
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decent; satisfactory
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Noun Edit
respectable (plural respectables)
- A person who is respectable.
- 1872, Thomas Cooper, The Life of Thomas Cooper, page 221:
- They forced their way into the meetings called by the respectables; and the respectables disappeared. It was of their own respectable good pleasure that they withdrew.
- 2014, Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, Alexandra Murphy, The Urban Ethnography Reader, page 38:
- The “respectables”, then, impute to themselves an absence of such character blemishes, or stated in more positive terms, an allegiance to American mainstream morality.
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Catalan Edit
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respectable m or f (masculine and feminine plural respectables)
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- “respectable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “respectable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “respectable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “respectable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French Edit
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- IPA(key): /ʁɛs.pɛk.tabl/
Audio (file) - Homophone: respectables
- Hyphenation: res‧pec‧table
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respectable (plural respectables)
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- “respectable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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respectable m or f (plural respectables)
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- “respectable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.