pay respects

pay your respects

to express your admiration or friendly feeling for someone First I paid my respects to her parents and then went into to town to see some other people. Fans waited in the cold to pay their final respects to this fine athlete.

Usage notes: sometimes used in the form pay your final respects (to express your admiration for someone who has died)

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Xene	-	Greek
Valeria	vah-LE-ryah (Italian), bah-LE-ryah (Spanish)	Italian, Spanish, Romanian, German, Ancient Roman
Zawisza	-	Polish (Archaic)
Aleksandra	ah-lyek-SAHN-drah (Russian), ah-leek-SAHN-drah (Russian), ahl-ek-SAHN-drah (Polish)	Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian, Estonian
Arndt	AHRNT	German
Monat	-	Irish