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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being respectable; the condition or qualities which deserve or command respect.
  • noun A respectable person or thing; a specimen or type of what is respectable.

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

  • noun The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.

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

  • noun The quality of being respectable.
  • noun The class of respectable people.

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

  • noun honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation

Etymologies

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respect +‎ -ability

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