BELOVED | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of beloved in English

(Definition of beloved from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of beloved from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of beloved

beloved
He wanted his beloved to be university educated.
From CNET
Publicly scraping clean the skeleton of one's beloved in a cemetery is a criminal act.
She was a healthy non-smoking 40-year-old, beloved by her students, her neighbors, her three daughters, and her husband.
Collecting one small victory at a time, and hoping their beloved baseball team does the same.
It's ripened in my estimation from a good follow-up to a beloved masterpiece to a minor-key masterpiece of its own.
The beloved show has attracted a loyal audience that spans multiple demographics.
And it's time to return to more beloved titles of the past too.
From CNET
Even its beloved celebrity users couldn't be protected.
The beloved mortgage interest deduction also played a part in making homeownership seem like a better value than it actually was.
There he was a genuinely beloved figure, the kind of professional younger lawyers seek to emulate.
From NPR
I think of it instead as one final gift, the same gift we're given when any beloved person dies.
In short, he was the furthest thing from the underdog contender typically beloved by sports cinema.
From TIME
What makes children return over and over again to a beloved book?
From NPR
For the church congregation, what happened that morning was much worse, and forced them out of their beloved building for two or three months.
The stars of the beloved 1965 movie-musical will be on hand for the fest's opening film.
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Translations of beloved

in Chinese (Traditional)
深愛的, 心愛的, 熱愛的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
深爱的, 心爱的, 热爱的…
in Spanish
querido, amado, adorado…
in Portuguese
amado…
in more languages
in Turkish
in French
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
in Malay
in German
in Norwegian
in Ukrainian
in Russian
sevilen, sevgili, aziz…
(bien)-aimé, (bien)-aimé/-ée…
geliefde…
milovaný, drahý, milý…
højt elsket, elskede…
tercinta, kekasih…
เป็นที่รัก, ที่รัก…
được yêu mến, người yêu dấu…
ukochany…
älskad, älskade, älskling…
tercinta, dikasihi…
geliebt, der/die Geliebte…
(høyt) elsket, elskede…
коханий, любий…
любимый…
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