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belovèd

belovèd is the alternative form of beloved.

Meaning of beloved

Adjective

beloved (comparative more beloved or beloveder, superlative most beloved or belovedest)

  1. Much loved, dearly loved.
    • But I found at laſt, by hearing and conſidering of things that are Divine, which indeed I heard of you, as alſo of beloved Faithful, that was put to death for his Faith and good-living in Vanity-fair, That the end of these things is death. [Rom[ans] 6. 21, 22, 23.] And that for theſe things ſake...1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, pages 187–188
    Antonyms:
    beloathed

See all 2 meanings of beloved

Forms of belovèd

Adjective
comparativemore belovèd
superlativemost belovèd
Noun
pluralbelovèds

Questions about belovèd

What is belovèd the alternative form of?
Belovèd is the alternative form of beloved.

Words near belovèd in the dictionary

  1. beloving
  2. belovingly
  3. belovite
  4. belovites
  5. Belovsky
  6. belovèd
  7. belovèds
  8. below
  9. below average
  10. below decks
  11. below ground

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Adapted from Wiktionary: belovèd (page history and authors); beloved (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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