TREASURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does treasured mean? 

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

1. characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREASURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for

Synonyms:

cherished; precious; treasured; wanted

Context example:

so good to feel wanted

Similar:

loved (held dear)

 Context examples 

Elinor joyfully treasured her words as she answered, If you could be assured of that, you think you should be easy.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I picked up one, of several that were rolling about, and treasured it as a keepsake for a long time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If you are already married, your partner will show you how much you are treasured, and you may receive a valuable gift.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I never thought it would go where it could tell tales, said Jo, tearing up the verses the Professor had treasured so long.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Sure was I of His efficiency to save what He had made: convinced I grew that neither earth should perish, nor one of the souls it treasured.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A fan, a glove, glasses—who knows what article may be carried as a token or treasured when a man puts an end to his life?

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

Oh, my husband! my husband, indeed I would have spared you such a thought had there been another way; but I pray that God may not have treasured your wild words, except as the heart-broken wail of a very loving and sorely stricken man.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mrs. Bennet treasured up the hint, and trusted that she might soon have two daughters married; and the man whom she could not bear to speak of the day before was now high in her good graces.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He rode no more to the wars, but he found his way to every jousting within thirty miles; and the Hampshire youth treasured it as the highest honor when a word of praise fell from him as to their management of their horses, or their breaking of their lances.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wolf Larsen treasured against them the attempt on his life and the drubbing he had received in the forecastle; and morning, noon, and night, and all night as well, he devoted himself to making life unlivable for them.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)