English
Etymology
From French déférence
Morphologically defer -ence
Pronunciation
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Noun
deference (countable and uncountable plural deferences
Great respect .
The children treated their elders with deference .
The willingness to carry out the wishes of others.
By tidying his room, he showed deference to his mother.
Synonyms
Translations
great respect
Bulgarian: почит (bg) f ( počit )
Catalan: deferència f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 尊敬 ( zyun1 ging3 ) , 敬重 ( ging3 zung6 )
Danish: ærbødighed
Dutch: eerbied (nl) m
Finnish: kunnioitus (fi) , arvonanto (fi)
French: respect (fr) m déférence (fr) f
German: Ehrerbietung (de) m Respekt (de) m Achtung (de) f
Greek: σεβασμός (el) m ( sevasmós )
Hungarian: hódolat (hu)
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Irish: ómós m
Italian: deferenza (it) f
Maori: kauanuanu ngākau whakaute
Polish: szacunek (pl) m atencja (pl) f ( dated ) , atentacja f ( archaic )
Portuguese: deferência (pt) f
Romanian: deferență (ro) f
Russian: уваже́ние (ru) n ( uvažénije ) , почте́ние (ru) n ( počténije ) , респе́кт (ru) m ( respékt ) , почита́ние (ru) n ( počitánije )
Serbo-Croatian: pokornost (sh) f uvažavanje (sh) n respekt (sh) m
Spanish: deferencia (es) f
Swedish: aktning (sv) c vördnad (sv) c respekt (sv) c
Turkish: hürmet (tr)
the willingness to carry out the wishes of others