What does recommend mean?

Definitions for recommend
ˌrɛk əˈmɛndrec·om·mend

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word recommend.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. recommend, urge, advocateverb

    push for something

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

  2. commend, recommendverb

    express a good opinion of

  3. recommendverb

    make attractive or acceptable

    "Honesty recommends any person"

Wiktionary

  1. recommendverb

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

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

  2. recommendverb

    To make acceptable; to attract favor to.

  3. recommendverb

    To advise, propose, counsel favorably

    The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.

  4. recommendverb

    To commit, 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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To RECOMMENDverb

    Etymology: recommender, Fr. re and commend.

    Mecenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus, whose praises helped to make him popular while alive, and after his death have made him precious to posterity. Dryden.

    A decent boldness ever meets with friends,
    Succeeds, and ev’n a stranger recommends. Alexander Pope.

    They had been recommended to the grace of God. Acts xiv.

ChatGPT

  1. recommend

    To recommend means to suggest that something would be beneficial or suitable for a specific purpose or situation. It involves giving advice or proposing an action based on one's personal opinion or professional expertise. Recommendations can be made for various things such as books, restaurants, products, services, strategies, or courses of action.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Recommendverb

    to commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body

  2. Recommendverb

    to make acceptable; to attract favor to

  3. Recommendverb

    to commit; to give in charge; to commend

  4. Etymology: [Pref. re- + commend: cf. F. recommander.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Recommend

    rek-o-mend′, v.t. to commend to another: to bestow praise on: to introduce favourably: to give in charge: to commit, as in prayer: to advise.—adj. Recommend′able, that may be recommended: worthy of praise.—n. Recommend′ableness, the quality of being recommendable.—adv. Recommend′ably, so as to deserve recommendation.—n. Recommendā′tion, act of recommending: act of introducing with commendation: repute: letter of recommendation.—adj. Recommend′ātory, that recommends: commendatory.—n. Recommend′er, one who, or that which, recommends.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. recommend

    To commend to the favorable notice of another. Non-commissioned officers of companies are appointed by the colonel upon the recommendation of company commanders. Recommendation of members of a court-martial in favor of the person being tried, is introduced after the finding and sentence are closed and authenticated. The recommendation should distinctly set forth the reasons which prompt it.—Hough.

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'recommend' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2690

  2. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'recommend' in Verbs Frequency: #350

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of recommend in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of recommend in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of recommend in a Sentence

  1. Ludwig van Beethoven:

    Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

  2. Chris Moyer:

    Hot wings are a classic game day favorite, so we decided to add a twist to make them hot Perdue chicken bites instead, they are spicy, so I recommend pairing with some coleslaw and cooling dipping sauces like ranch and Bleu cheese.

  3. Jennifer Shu:

    In general, the time that I tend to recommend juice is if kids have constipation, and apple juice and prune juice can sometimes help with that.

  4. Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko:

    I am really happy for Yulia Efimova, wADA( World Anti-Doping Agency) has taken absolutely the right decision to recommend that Efimova's temporary ban is lifted.

  5. Kristina Hamm:

    We recommend people throw The PPE in the trash. We don't want to have children or unsuspecting healthy adults to come in contact and become carriers of the infection.

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