Definitions for admires

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admires ad·mire

Spelling: [ad-mahyuh r]

IPA: /ædˈmaɪər/

Admires is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 356 anagrams from letters in admires (adeimrs).

Definitions for admires

Idioms

1. be admiring of, Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. to admire:

verb (used with object)

1. to regard with wonder, pleasure, or approval.
2. to regard with wonder or surprise (usually used ironically or sarcastically):

verb (used without object)

1. to feel or express admiration.
2. Dialect. to take pleasure; like or desire:

Origin of admires

1580-90; Latin admīrārī, equivalent to ad- ad- + mīrārī (in Medieval Latin mīrāre) to wonder at, admire

Examples for admires

admires her great qualities, and glories in the friendship between them.

What Stewart admires are the “brave correspondents” who cover things like the Arab Spring.

A department store piano melody plays in the background while he admires everything he can see.

Beulwitz, the emperor's aide-de-camp, admires her immensely.

He will not forget the builder while he admires the architect.

He admires you greatly, Lucy; he told me so as he took me downstairs.

I am like the drunkard who admires a temperate life, yet can't pass a ginshop.

But he also admires the strength of children, and honors it in his work.

He admires the “courage of the Dream 9” but calls it an “ill-conceived protest.”

She passes it on to a man who admires her lipstick traces on it.