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respects is a noun meaning "(often used with `pay') a formal expression of esteem". It is pronounced /ɹɪˈspɛkts/ — ri-SPEKTS. It carries one recorded sense.
(often used with `pay') a formal expression of esteem
“he paid his respects to the mayor”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for respects come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.