CHERISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cherish mean? 

• CHERISH (verb)
  The verb CHERISH has 1 sense:

1. be fond of; be attached to

  Familiarity information: CHERISH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHERISH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cherish    ... he / she / it cherishes   
Past simple: cherished   
Past participle: cherished   
-ing form: cherishing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be fond of; be attached to

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

care for; cherish; hold dear; treasure

Hypernyms (to "cherish" is one way to...):

love (have a great affection or liking for)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cherish"):

yearn (have affection for; feel tenderness for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue cherish the movie

 Context examples 

Now, my dear people, continued Jo earnestly, just understand that this isn't a new idea of mine, but a long cherished plan.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

What was of value to the master he valued; what was dear to the master was to be cherished by White Fang and guarded carefully.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“You have no best to me, Steerforth,” said I, “and no worst. You are always equally loved, and cherished in my heart.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My uncle I had heard was dead—my only relative; ever since being made aware of his existence, I had cherished the hope of one day seeing him: now, I never should.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If thou wert yet alive and yet cherished a desire of revenge against me, it would be better satiated in my life than in my destruction.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was, at least, a ticklish decision that he had to make; and self-reliant as he was by habit, he began to cherish a longing for advice.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Say some word of hope, however distant—some kind word that I may cherish in my heart.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Cherish her, then, whilst you may, for the day will come when every hasty deed or heedless word will come back with its sting to hive in your own heart.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She died, and left this one child, whom for her sake I have cherished and cared for.

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

It was the cherished belief of each that he did more than his share of the work, and neither forbore to speak this belief at every opportunity.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)