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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dearest
noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's nearest and dearest
▪ I don't deal, not for anybody, not for my nearest and dearest.
▪ It will ensure that the memory of your wedding day will remain uppermost in the minds of your nearest and dearest.
▪ Novels may have changed, but dropping hints about your will remains a sure-fire way to annoy your nearest and dearest.
▪ Or heard yourself screaming in a high pitch while arguing fruitlessly with your nearest and dearest?
▪ Sentimental visits home were punctuated by heated and bitter political arguments with my nearest and dearest.
▪ She had come to this, to a limp white heap who had forgotten the names of her nearest and dearest.
▪ Those whose nearest and dearest suffer hearing loss are offered very little assistance to meet the situation!
▪ Which I most certainly am not, as nearest and dearest, and gangs of so-called friends will confirm.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Well, dearest, I was a little worried.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He'd inscribed the book, ` To dearest Polly.
▪ I am keeping the light, dearest.
▪ Let yourself go, my dearest.
▪ Oh, my dearest, dearest, Riley!
▪ Pray for me, dearest, I shall be home sooner than we think.
▪ Sentimental visits home were punctuated by heated and bitter political arguments with my nearest and dearest.
▪ The secret truth, dearest, is that I can not bear dating.
▪ You are my dearest, my darling, my dear one.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dearest

Dear \Dear\ (d[=e]r), a. [Compar. Dearer (d[=e]r"[~e]r); superl. Dearest (d[=e]r"[e^]st).] [OE. dere, deore, AS. de['o]re; akin to OS. diuri, D. duur, OHG. tiuri, G. theuer, teuer, Icel. d[=y]rr, Dan. & Sw. dyr. Cf. Darling, Dearth.]

  1. Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.

    The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear.
    --Shak.

  2. Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year.

  3. Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious. ``Hear me, dear lady.''
    --Shak.

    Neither count I my life dear unto myself.
    --Acts xx. 2

  4. And the last joy was dearer than the rest. --Pope. Dear as remember'd kisses after death. --Tennyson. 4. Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention.

    1. Of agreeable things and interests.

      [I'll] leave you to attend him: some dear cause Will in concealment wrap me up awhile.
      --Shak.

      His dearest wish was to escape from the bustle and glitter of Whitehall.
      --Macaulay.

    2. Of disagreeable things and antipathies.

      In our dear peril.
      --Shak.

      Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day.
      --Shak.

Wiktionary
dearest

a. (en-superlative of: dear) n. A beloved person; a term of endearment.

WordNet
dearest

n. a beloved person; used as terms of endearment [syn: beloved, dear, loved one, honey, love]

Wikipedia
Dearest (Ayumi Hamasaki song)

"Dearest" is a song by Japanese recording artist Ayumi Hamasaki, released as her 24th single on September 27, 2001.

Dearest

Dearest may refer to:

  • Dearest (2012 film) ( Anata e), a 2012 Japanese film directed by Yasuo Furuhata
  • Dearest (2014 film) (Qin Ai De), a 2014 Chinese film directed by Peter Chan
  • Dearest (Ayumi Hamasaki song)
  • "Dearest", a 1959 song by Michael Holliday
Dearest (2014 film)

Dearest is a 2014 Chinese-language film directed by Peter Chan on kidnapping in China, based on a true story, starring Zhao Wei, Huang Bo, Tong Dawei, Hao Lei, Zhang Yi and Zhang Yuqi. It was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

Usage examples of "dearest".

Had you not chanced to tell me about a month ago that you had no taste for music, I would have told you that I could play the violoncello remarkably well, but if I had mentioned such a thing, I know you well enough to be certain that you would have bought an instrument immediately, and I could not, dearest, find pleasure in anything that would weary you.

Tell me, dearest, whether I could refuse that singular request to the man who was shewing me such compliant kindness?

Tell me, dearest, could you manage to live anywhere as comfortably as you do here?

It is not possible, dearest, that a woman can ever have loved you as I do.

You will see that you are in the wrong, dearest, and that, far from despising you, my dear friend loves you only.

But will you explain to me, dearest, the meaning of the words embroidered upon my garters?

Learn then, dearest, that on the last day of the year, my friend will be at the casino, which he will leave only the next morning.

Yes, dearest, I have a heart, or I should not feel as happy as I feel now.

Yet, dearest friend, it does not prevent my being your Henriette--that Henriette who has in her life been guilty of three escapades, the last of which would have utterly ruined me if it had not been for you, but which I call a delightful error, since it has been the cause of my knowing you.

Such is, dearest love, the sincere confession of my treason, but as a wise lover you will forgive me because it has not done you the slightest harm.

Love will protect us, dearest, and to-morrow your father will receive a letter from my worthy protector.

Besides, dearest, such an invitation cannot be declined unless I wish to gain a most bitter enemy.

I am not jealous, dearest, for I know that you cannot love anyone but me.

That may be the case, dearest browny, but I am delighted to have done such wonders, and to have made such trial of my strength.

For the first time I folded this angelic being in my arms, exclaiming, "Yes, dearest Lucie, yes, thou hast it in thy power to afford the sweetest relief to my devouring pain.