dearly loved
Origin of beloved
Middle English biloved from biloven: see be and love a beloved person
A mother and her beloved baby.
The definition of beloved is someone or something that is loved dearly.
The way a mother feels about her baby is an example of beloved.
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beloved
adjective
Dearly loved.
Origin of beloved
Middle English biloved past participle of beloven to love bi- be- loven to love ; see love .Related Forms:
- be·lov′ed
noun
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Sentence Examples
- But he was much beloved by his family.
- I also knew Mr. Charles Dudley Warner, the most delightful of story-tellers and the most beloved friend, whose sympathy was so broad that it may be truly said of him, he loved all living things and his neighbour as himself.
- My beloved Betsy, my world, was in his hands.
- Her beloved walls stood strong and beautiful, the white stone streaked with peach.
- DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1), in the Bible, the son of Jesse, king of Judah and Israel, and founder of the royal Judaean dynasty at Jerusalem.
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Words near beloved in the dictionary
- beloved
- belovedness
- beloveds
- beloving