deem
Pronunciation: /diːm/
The English word “deem” has 6 meanings listed here.
verb
- To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
- To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
- To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
- To adjudge, to decree.
- To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
noun
Etymology
From Middle English dēmen (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”), from Old English dēman (“to decide, decree, deem”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōmijan, from Proto-Germanic *dōmijaną (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to set, put”). The word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål dømme (“to…
Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “deem” there
More English words
About this dictionary
The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.
Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.