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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
covet
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
▪ The most coveted prize is empties.
▪ The most coveted commodities in the top 10 are pass rushers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Gatlin covets my job, which he has been in line for twice before.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But in times of tight elections these unsung regions become political hubs, and their votes are coveted prizes.
▪ He might have known the Great Enchanter personally, and will almost certainly covet some of Drachenfels' magical possessions.
▪ How can Willy plant seeds, a simple act he covets?
▪ If it can retain its customers' faith it could achieve the leadership position it covets by 1997.
▪ The Finance Minister post was one of the coveted cabinet jobs.
▪ The most coveted prize is empties.
▪ The second whinnied and moved back a step to graze the spot it had been coveting for the past hour.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Covet

Covet \Cov"et\ (k?v"?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Covered; p. pr. & vb. n. Coveting.] [OF. coveitier, covoitier, F. convoiter, from a derivative fr. L. cupere to desire; cf. Skr. kup to become excited. Cf. Cupidity.]

  1. To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sense.

    Covet earnestly the best gifts.
    --1. Cor. xxii. 31.

    If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
    --Shak.

  2. To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).

    Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house.
    --Ex. xx. 17.

    Syn: To long for; desire; hanker after; crave.

Covet

Covet \Cov"et\, v. i. To have or indulge inordinate desire.

Which [money] while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith.
--1 Tim. vi. 10.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
covet

mid-13c., from Old French coveitier "covet, desire, lust after" (12c., Modern French convoiter, influenced by con- words), probably ultimately from Latin cupiditas "passionate desire, eagerness, ambition," from cupidus "very desirous," from cupere "long for, desire" (see cupidity). Related: Coveted; coveting.

Wiktionary
covet

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously. 2 (context transitive English) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden). 3 (context intransitive English) To yearn, have or indulge inordinate desire, notably for another's possession.

WordNet
covet

v. wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person); "She covets her sister's house"

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Usage examples of "covet".

In August 1701 he obtained for French traders the asiento, the profitable and coveted monopoly in negro slaves.

The Billabong ball was an event for which an invitation was much coveted.

She coveted every bit of information she could glean, but was suspicious of spies.

It both surprised and annoyed him, for never had he coveted the lives of his brothers.

Somehow, either through luck or sweet talk, Samantha had managed to get one of the coveted high-backed booths near the fire exit.

Some very talented practitioners need only a few minutes of silence to reach that coveted goal.

Carlos Pena had transformed himself from a player Billy Beane coveted more than any other minor leaguer into a player everyone valued more highly than Billy did.

Geordie Land-Surveyor get to be his Second on the most coveted Star-gazing Assignment of the Century?

What they all had in common was the coveted ticket that made them witnesses.

Jealousy-or envy, if you prefer to use that term to describe the coveting of characteristics rather than love-will dog your footsteps as the Furies did poor Orestes.

Between his wrath at the suspicion of an injury, and the prudence enjoined by his abject coveting of her, he consented to be fooled for the sake of vengeance, and something besides.

She will be cured by-and-by of that coveting of everything that I do, feel, think, dream, imagine .

He dragged her through the labyrinths of his penetralia, in his hungry coveting to be loved more and still more, more still, until imagination gave up the ghost, and he talked to her plain hearing like a monster.

But when I had won what I coveted, did I realize that I was going over old ground?

Is it so hard being mistress of a grand castle that you covet a life in the wildwood with only your lute and gittern and pipes to sustain you?