BELOVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beloved mean? 

• BELOVED (noun)
  The noun BELOVED has 1 sense:

1. a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

  Familiarity information: BELOVED used as a noun is very rare.

• BELOVED (adjective)
  The adjective BELOVED has 1 sense:

1. dearly loved

  Familiarity information: BELOVED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BELOVED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A beloved person; used as terms of endearment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

beloved; dear; dearest; honey; love

Hypernyms ("beloved" is a kind of...):

lover (a person who loves someone or is loved by someone)

Derivation:

beloved (dearly loved)

• BELOVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dearly loved

Synonyms:

beloved; darling; dear

Similar:

loved (held dear)

Derivation:

beloved (a beloved person; used as terms of endearment)

 Context examples 

I shuddered involuntarily, and clung instinctively closer to my blind but beloved master.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Perhaps during former years he had suffered from the late-discovered unworthiness of one beloved and so was disposed to set a greater value on tried worth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But the king said, “You are my beloved bride, and we will never more be parted from each other.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A beloved home made over to others; all the precious rooms and furniture, groves, and prospects, beginning to own other eyes and other limbs!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She knew her beloved Catherine to have so feeling a heart, so sweet a temper, to be so easily persuaded by those she loved.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

This tomb was erected by his sorrowing mother to her dearly beloved son.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Upon my life and honour, I never was so rejoiced, my beloved Copperfield, never!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is not easy to express the joy I was in, upon the unexpected hope of once more seeing my beloved country, and the dear pledges I left in it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)