Esteem
Rate
Rate verb - To think of in a particular way.
Usage example: I would rate her my best friend; after all, she's always been there when I needed her
Esteem is a synonym for rate in think highly of topic. Sometimes you can use "Esteem" instead a verb "Rate", if it concerns topics such as regard, judge, consider, evaluate.
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- Yet in Russia itself he is not held in high esteem because the poverty rate of his country grew quite a lot after the USSR fell.
Source: Never Accepted in His Hometown
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