loved

[luhvd]

adjective

1. held in deep affection; cherished.

   loved companions; much-loved friends.

Other Word Forms

• unloved adjective
• well-loved adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of loved¹

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English; love ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Emma Goldman was expelled from the country in 1919 and spent her last 20 years in exile from a United States she loved.

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But a steady stream of Chinese people still disappear into them, prompting desperate searches from loved ones -- searches that expose them to another whole level of scams and fraudsters.

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He asked everyone to keep her loved ones in their thoughts and prayers as "we come to terms with this heartbreaking loss," he wrote.

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Elsewhere in the crowd, bewilderment laced with anger when families who had been informed that their loved ones would be released discovered they weren’t on the buses after all.

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“Intimacy meant only one person loved you, not thousands, not millions,” Keaton wrote decades later in her 2011 memoir “Then Again.”

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