beckon

«beckon» in Mova's school dictionary: to move the hand or head to call someone to come closer — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (beckons, beckoned, beckoning)

meaning for a pupil

1) To beckon is to move the hand or head to call someone to come closer. tree →

2) To beckon can also mean to attract or tempt, as bright lights seem to call you. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories, a light, a window or a bright thing that seems to call someone in

examples

• She beckoned to me with her hand. tree →
• The waves beckoned the children to the beach. tree →
• The lights of the town beckoned to us. tree →
• He nodded and beckoned us in. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «beckon» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.