Definitions for recommend
ˌrɛk əˈmɛndrec·om·mend

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To RECOMMENDverb

   Etymology: recommender, Fr. re and commend.

   1. To praise to another.2. To make acceptable.

   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.

   3. To commit with prayers.

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

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:2.5 / 2 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

Anagrams for recommend »

1. commender

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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. David Spiegelhalter:

   There is no safe level of driving, but governments do not recommend that people avoid driving, come to think of it, there is no safe level of living, but nobody would recommend abstention.

2. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield:

   I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

3. Ludwig van Beethoven:

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

4. Shawn Hick:

   It’s never struck that close before, definitely not something I would recommend. I would recommend what my mom taught me when I was younger, staying inside during a storm.

5. Ludwig van Beethoven:

   Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.

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