LOVED ONE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who you love, usually a member of your family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("loved one" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

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 Context examples: 

The conjugal affection of her father and mother constituted her ideal of love-affinity, and she looked forward some day to emerging, without shock or friction, into that same quiet sweetness of existence with a loved one.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)