What does beloved mean?

Definitions for beloved
bɪˈlʌv ɪd, -ˈlʌvdbeloved

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. beloved, dear, dearest, honey, loveadjective

    a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

  2. beloved, darling, dearadjective

    dearly loved

Wiktionary

  1. belovednoun

    someone who is loved; something that is loved

  2. belovedadjective

    loved

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Belovedparticiple.

    It is observable, that, though the participle be of very frequent use, the verb is seldom or never admitted; Loved; dear.

    Etymology: from belove, derived of love.

    I think, it is not meet,
    Mark Anthony, so well belov’d of Cæsar,
    Should outlive Cæsar. William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar.

    In likeness of a dove
    The spirit descended, while the father’s voice
    From heav’n pronounc’d him his beloved son. John Milton, Paradise Regained, b. i. l. 32.

Wikipedia

  1. Beloved

    Beloved is a single by Christian rock artist Jordan Feliz, originally released on his 2015 studio album Beloved and subsequently released on his 2016 studio album The River.

ChatGPT

  1. beloved

    Beloved is an adjective used to describe something or someone who is greatly loved, cherished, and adored by others. It signifies the deep affection, admiration, and attachment that people have for a particular person, thing, or concept. Being beloved implies a strong emotional connection and a sense of value and importance placed on the object of affection.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Beloved

    of Belove

  2. Beloved

    greatly loved; dear to the heart

  3. Belovednoun

    one greatly loved

Wikidata

  1. Beloved

    Beloved is a novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War, it is inspired by the story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who temporarily escaped slavery during 1856 in Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. A posse arrived to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across state borders. Margaret killed her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured. Beloved's main character, Sethe, kills her daughter and tries to kill her other three children when a posse arrives in Ohio to return them to Sweet Home, the plantation in Kentucky from which Sethe recently fled. A woman presumed to be her daughter, called Beloved, returns years later to haunt Sethe's home at 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati. The story opens with an introduction to the ghost: "124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom." The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. It was adapted during 1998 into a movie of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey. During 2006 a New York Times survey of writers and literary critics ranked it as the best work of American fiction of the past 25 years.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Beloved

    be-luvd′, or be-luv′ed, p.adj. much loved, very dear—often compounded with well-; best-, &c.—n. one who is much loved.—adj. Belov′ing (Shak.) = loving.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of beloved in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of beloved in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of beloved in a Sentence

  1. Lamont Dozier:

    During this period, whatever we touched seemed to go straight into the Top 10, it was as if we stumbled onto the best door on' The Price Is Right,' where the prizes just keep on coming and coming ! The hits went on and on. Many of our songs have turned into beloved songs of the American Songbook.

  2. Jeff Witjas:

    Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever, i will miss her terribly and so will the animal world that she loved so much. I don't think Betty ever feared passing because she always wanted to be with her most beloved husband Allen Ludden. She believed she would be with him again.

  3. Extra TV:

    Our hearts are broken, cheslie was not just a vital part of our show, she was a beloved part of our Extra family and touched the entire staff. Our deepest condolences to all her family and friends.

  4. Aristotle:

    Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

  5. Psalm 1272 Bible:

    It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

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