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Wiktionary

  1. n. A very close friend or family member for whom a person has feelings of endearment.
  2. n. euphemistic A recently deceased person.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person who you love, usually a member of your family

Examples

  • “Even giving a massage to a loved one or catching up on physical household chores to wonderful music can give you the activity you need, while keeping you free from self-conscious or calorie-obsessed associations.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Truth About Beauty

  • “In the Kübler-Ross model, acceptance, which she defined as recognizing that your loved one is permanently gone, is the last and final stage.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Truth About Grief

  • “According to Nighswonger, soon-to-be-bereaved family members should synchronize their own emotions with those of their loved one in order to help them die.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Truth About Grief

  • “When a loved one died in Egypt Wikan observed mostly poor families in Cairo, relatives screamed, wailed, and lamented for several weeks, venting their suffering and pain in front of visitors who both consoled and encouraged the outpouring.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Truth About Grief

  • “Thies says the take-home message is that if an elderly loved one starts showing up with bruising and has unexplained falls, it's worth a trip to a healthcare provider.”

    USA Today: Falls linked to early Alzheimer's disease

  • “I realized that unlike the survival-of-consciousness hypothesis, which was meaningful only to individuals who have experienced the loss of a loved one and have a personal reason to care about life after death, the spirit guides hypothesis had the potential to be meaningful to all of us.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Sacred Promise

  • “How you can tell a loved one was raised on redneck liquor-store porn: They prefer strategically placed bits of naughty flesh peeping out of trampy clothes to actual nudity.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Best American Erotica 2006

  • “Helping the loved one get through the milestone can call for a dose of sentimentality mixed in with the revelry: something to tug at the heartstrings without opening a flood of candle-extinguishing waterworks.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Swell Dressed Party

  • “No one wants to be hospitalized with a heart attack or watch a loved one undergo open-heart surgery for a problem that might have been prevented.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Flex Diet

  • “THE HIGHEST FUNCTION OF LOVE is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”

    Fictionaut: La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth

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