admire

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To regard with pleasure, wonder, and approval.
• intransitive verb To have a high opinion of; esteem or respect.
• intransitive verb Chiefly New England & Upper Southern US To enjoy (something).
• intransitive verb Archaic To marvel or wonder at.
• intransitive verb To marvel at something. Often used with at.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To regard with wonder or surprise; wonder or marvel at: formerly used literally, but now chiefly in an ironical or sarcastic sense, with reference to meaning 2: as, I admire your audacity.
• To regard with wonder mingled with approbation, esteem, reverence, or affection; feel admiration for; take pleasure in the beauty or qualities of; look on or contemplate with pleasure.
• To wonder; be affected with surprise; marvel: sometimes with at.
• To feel or express admiration.
• To feel pleasure; be pleased: as, I should admire to go.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.
• transitive verb Archaic To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
• transitive verb To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb obsolete, transitive To be amazed at.
• verb transitive To regard with wonder and delight.
• verb transitive to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence;
• verb transitive to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb feel admiration for
• verb look at with admiration