recommend

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   make attractive or acceptable

   Honesty recommends any person

2. 2
   verb

   push for something

   The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day

3. 3
   verb

   To bestow commendation on; to represent favorably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.

   The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.

4. 4
   verb

   To make acceptable; to attract favor to.

   A city that has much to recommend it.

5. 5
   verb

   To advise, propose, counsel favorably.

   The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.

6. 6
   verb

   To commit, to confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations.

   A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery.

7. 7
   noun

   A recommendation.

   "I'm glad to have a recommend from that quarter. Airheart's skipper of the San Jose now. […]"

8. 8
   verb

   express a good opinion of

Etymology

From Middle English recommenden, from Old French recommender (compare French recommander), from Latin re- + commendāre (“to commend, commit; to recommend”), from con- + mandāre (“commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand, handwriting, power”) + dare (“to give; to offer or render”). Compare typologically Bulgarian препоръчам (preporǎčam), Serbo-Croatian препоручити, Slovene priporočiti, Czech doporučit, Slovak odporučiť (the same meaning); Russian поручи́ться (poručítʹsja), пору́ка (porúka), поручи́тельство (poručítelʹstvo) (close meaning), all related to Proto-Slavic *rǫka (Bulgarian ръка (…