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beloved
/bɪˈlʌvd/
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What does beloved mean?
adjective
- Much loved, dearly loved.
noun
- Someone who is loved; something that is loved.
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verb
- (obsolete) simple past and past participle of belove.
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IPA pronunciation
/bɪˈlʌvd/
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After an interval I arose, and as if by instinct, crawled into the room where the corpse of my beloved lay.
Their vague feminine formula for beloved ones doing brave deeds on the field of battle without risk of life would be destroyed.
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It is the desire for stability of affection, for a sympathetic beloved, an outlet for emotion, a longing for respectable unitary status.
Tops come in when the marble game is in full blast, and gradually it drives out, till another spring, its beloved rival.
At the head of the column I rode beside the great Thark while at the heels of my mount trotted my beloved Woola.