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CHERISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be fond of; be attached to

Synonyms:

care for; cherish; hold dear; treasure

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "cherish" is one way to...):

love (have a great affection or liking for)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cherish"):

yearn (have affection for; feel tenderness for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue cherish the movie

Credits

 Context examples: 

I don’t know what the Ghost would have been without you, and if I could only cherish such noble sentiments I would tell you her master is deeply grateful.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The congratulatory letter which Elizabeth received from Lydia on her marriage, explained to her that, by his wife at least, if not by himself, such a hope was cherished.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

By the end of eleven years, however, Mrs. Price could no longer afford to cherish pride or resentment, or to lose one connexion that might possibly assist her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility; but by Mrs. Dashwood it was valued and cherished.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If Louisa Musgrove would be beautiful and happy in her November of life, she will cherish all her present powers of mind."

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This amiable, upright, perfect Jane Fairfax was apparently cherishing very reprehensible feelings.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

When everything was done they left the room, Catherine lingering only half a minute behind her friend to throw a parting glance on every well-known, cherished object, and went down to the breakfast-parlour, where breakfast was prepared.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

What his remembrances of me were, I have never known—they were light enough, perhaps, and easily dismissed—but mine of him were as the remembrances of a cherished friend, who was dead.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Laurie smiled, but he liked the spirit with which she took up a new purpose when a long-cherished one died, and spent no time lamenting.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

No, said he; it is a long-cherished scheme, and the only one which can secure my great end: but I shall urge you no further at present.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)