To give ear to; to execute the commands of; to yield submission to; to comply with the orders of
If you obey a person, a command, or an instruction, you do what you are told to do. Cissie obeyed her mother without question Most people obey the law It was still Baker's duty to obey. to do what someone in authority tells you to do, or what a law or rule says you must do disobey (obeir, from oboedire, from audire )