beloved

«beloved» in Mova's school dictionary: Loved very much: a beloved pet, a beloved teacher — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (beloved); noun (a beloved, someone's beloved)

meaning for a pupil

1) Loved very much: a beloved pet, a beloved teacher. tree →

2) (noun, old or poetic) A person who is loved, especially a sweetheart. tree →

3) (church, Bible) Used for people dear to God or to each other, as in «dearly beloved» at the start of a wedding. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and news, «beloved» shows strong love or popularity: a beloved family dog, a beloved children's author. At weddings and funerals people hear «dearly beloved» or «beloved wife and mother» on gravestones.

examples

• Our beloved cat lived to be eighteen. tree →
• The beloved old teacher retired this year. tree →
• Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today… tree →
• He wrote poems to his beloved. tree →
• The gravestone said "beloved father and grandfather". tree →
• Paddington is a beloved children's character. tree →
• Once our beloved Aphtanides paid us a visit. tree →

note

Said bee-LUV-id before a noun (my beloved dog) and often bee-LUVD after a verb (he was beloved by all). The noun sense sounds old-fashioned or romantic.

In the corpora

• Let me sing of my well-beloved, a song of my beloved touching his vineyard.
• My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill;
• That Thy beloved may be delivered, save with Thy right hand, and answer me.
• That Thy beloved may be delivered, save with Thy right hand, and answer me.
• My beloved is unto me as a bag of myrrh, that lieth betwixt my breasts.

Trees and pragmatics

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