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beloved Definition

be·loved (bi luvid, -luvd)

adjective

dearly loved

Etymology: ME biloved < biloven: see be & love

noun

a beloved person

beloved Synonyms

beloved

modif.

loved, adored, worshiped, cherished, dear, favorite, admired, highly regarded or valued, idolized, precious, prized, dearest, yearned for, hallowed, popular, revered, venerated, treasured, well-liked, cared for, respected, endeared, favored, esteemed, doted on, nearest to one's own heart, dearly beloved, pleasing, after one's own heart, darling, pet.

Antonyms hated*, abhorred, disliked.

beloved Synonyms

beloved

n.

fiancé, sweetheart, object of one's affection; see lover 1.

beloved Usage Examples

Preposition: over

  • arrangement: They will hear your arguments with your beloved over the wedding arrangements.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • have: Even with the sun well above the horizon, the light cast have a warm glow beloved by landscape photographers.

Modifies a noun

  • wife: Beloved wife of the late Raymond, much loved mother of Chris.
  • husband: Beloved husband of the late Eileen, dearly loved father of Michael.
  • brethren: Well, what are we, beloved brethren, in ourselves?
  • disciple: Moreover, how could John, during the lifetime of the disciples, have written, " I am the beloved disciple " ?
  • son: Reunited with his beloved son Stephen who died on November 19, 1991.
  • pet: I felt like a vet breaking bad news to a child about a beloved pet.

Modifying Another Word

  • dearly: Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
  • greatly: Gabriel said to him, ' Daniel, thou art a man greatly beloved.
  • so: Where was the paradox so beloved in their books?
  • much: There's a big pair of double gates here, much beloved by Network Q spectators.
  • once: Special guests at the show included AS I LAY DYING and ONCE BELOVED.
  • well: He now can eat James well beloved dry food, Hills Science Plan Dry food, and Iams Dry.. .

Preposition: among

  • son: Under the Apple Tree ' As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: And he says my feeling runs deep for this fugitive, this criminal Phrygian slave has become beloved to me.

Preposition: of

  • writer: The widget company, beloved of management writers, is described in chapter two.
  • man: He was the proverbial ill-chosen beloved of a wise man 's affection.
  • government: However, even this ( which seems much beloved of government ) doesn't involve adding Health money to the mix.
  • economist: Let us also assume that the conditions of perfect competition apply as so beloved of orthodox economists.
beloved Quotes

   My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Cry, the Beloved Country.

—Paton, Alan

Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God, and in the face of this Congregation, to join together this man and this woman in holy Matrimony; which is an honourable estate, instituted of God.

—Book of Common Prayer

   All things are literally better, lovelier, more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinelyappointed.

—Ruskin,John

The oldölike childrenötalk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the onlyears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

—O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone