Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Dearly loved.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Loved; greatly loved; dear to the heart.
- noun One who is greatly loved; one very dear.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- past participle Greatly loved; dear to the heart.
- noun One greatly loved.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
loved - noun someone who is
loved ; something that is loved
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective dearly loved
- noun a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Maybe Monday or later in the week a decision will be taken, by then half of you will be gazed or shellacked to use an expression beloved by BHO. cornel: Are they still waiting for outside help?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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To Kill A Mockingbird is also beautifully presented by Universal, which makes sense for one of the films that truly deserves the word beloved.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Donwton Abbey Has Gone Down, Down, Down in Quality Michael Giltz 2012
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To Kill A Mockingbird is also beautifully presented by Universal, which makes sense for one of the films that truly deserves the word beloved.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Donwton Abbey Has Gone Down, Down, Down in Quality Michael Giltz 2012
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To Kill A Mockingbird is also beautifully presented by Universal, which makes sense for one of the films that truly deserves the word beloved.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Donwton Abbey Has Gone Down, Down, Down in Quality Michael Giltz 2012
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To Kill A Mockingbird is also beautifully presented by Universal, which makes sense for one of the films that truly deserves the word beloved.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Donwton Abbey Has Gone Down, Down, Down in Quality Michael Giltz 2012
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To Kill A Mockingbird is also beautifully presented by Universal, which makes sense for one of the films that truly deserves the word beloved.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Donwton Abbey Has Gone Down, Down, Down in Quality Michael Giltz 2012
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She replied, Not so, my beloved is the fairer; woe to thee, O Dahnash!
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We can build what he called a beloved community—a truly interracial democracy, a community at peace with itself.
Why Marriage Matters Evan Wolfson 2004
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We can build what he called a beloved community—a truly interracial democracy, a community at peace with itself.
Why Marriage Matters Evan Wolfson 2004
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Martha Stewart making her statement, a defiant Martha Stewart, saying that this was a shameful day for her, for her family, for what she calls her beloved company.
jaymediane commented on the word beloved
I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against
The want of you;
Of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
-- Amy Lowell
October 22, 2007
jaymediane commented on the word beloved
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
-- Raymond Carver
October 22, 2007
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word beloved
The Leader stood awhile with head bowed down;
Then said: "The business badly he recounted
Who grapples with his hook the sinners yonder."
And the Friar: "Many of the Devil's vices
Once heard I at Bologna, and among them,
That he's a liar and the father of lies."
Thereat my Leader with great strides went on,
Somewhat disturbed with anger in his looks;
Whence from the heavy-laden I departed
After the prints of his beloved feet.
-Dante's Divine Comedy
July 22, 2009