Word Finder - dear

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A very kind, loving person.

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My cousin is such a dear, always drawing me pictures.

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A beloved person.

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An affectionate, familiar term of address, such as used between husband and wife.

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Pass me the salt, would you dear?

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To endear.

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High in price; expensive.

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The dearer the jewel, the greater the love expressed.

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Loved; lovable.

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Loving, affectionate, heartfelt

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Such dear embrace tenderly comforts even in this dear sorrow.

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Precious to or greatly valued by someone.

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The dearer the giver, the dearer the trinket he brings!

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A formal way to start (possibly after my) addressing somebody at the beginning of a letter, memo etc.

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Dear Sir/Madam/Miss, please notice our offices will be closed during the following bank holidays: [...].

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A formal way to start (often after my) addressing somebody one likes or regards kindly.

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My dear friend, I feel better as soon as you come sit beside my sickbed!

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An ironic way to start (often after my) addressing an inferior.

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My dear boy, if your grades don't pick up I won't bounce you on but over my knee!

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Noble.

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Dearly; at a high price

I'll miss my dear brother.

And that wouldn't bother dear old Arthur?

Dear God, I hope not!

All of my dear little friends came to see me.

I'm fine, dear, really.

They are dear, kind people....

Her stupidity had cost a life this time – the life of a dear friend.

Dear friend, I can do nothing.

Teacher sends her kind remembrances, and I send you with my picture my dear love.

In the diary that she kept at the Wright-Humason School in New York she wrote on October 18, 1894, "I find that I have four things to learn in my school life here, and indeed, in life--to think clearly without hurry or confusion, to love everybody sincerely, to act in everything with the highest motives, and to trust in dear God unhesitatingly."

I was sure dear Brenda would be far more candid with the instrument pressed to her throat.

But you know, my dear boy, it's a pity you got excited!

Only the two of us, dear Joshua and I, know our secret and so will it remain.

The lesson you have learned to-day is never to pay too dear for a whistle.

Then I shall see you, and dear Mr. Bell, and Elsie and Daisy again!

Just before the Perkins Institution closed for the summer, it was arranged that my teacher and I should spend our vacation at Brewster, on Cape Cod, with our dear friend, Mrs. Hopkins.

Now, dear friend, Please accept these few words because of the love that is linked with them.

My dear Carrie--You are to look upon it as a most positive proof of my love that I write to you to-day.

Oh dear, what am I thinking about?

Dear God, he thought, I've killed her.

Dear me, that will make 23 vacan­cies—24 if Mr. Cleary is gone too.

The most reputable of the Jews fled to Egypt; but Onias, a righteous man and dear to God, who had hidden himself, was discovered by the besiegers.

Just now, my dear, there is not a single warrior in your company.

I remember with deepest gratitude the kindness of these dear friends and the happy days I spent with them.

I was delighted to see my dear little friends and I hugged and kissed them.

Then I knew that you had not forgotten the dear little child, for the gift brought with it the thought of tender sympathy.

My dear Mr. Munsell, Surely I need not tell you that your letter was very welcome.

I named him myself after my dear friend Phillips Brooks.

Teacher seems to feel benefitted by the change too; for she is already beginning to look like her dear old self.

Look at your life, my dear sir.

Each letter, written in excellent penmanship, began Dear Annie but there were no accompanying envelopes and no addresses.

Bread was dear and employment was scarce.

I can hardly wait patiently for the time to come when I shall see my dear English friends, and their beautiful island home.

But what I consider my crown of success is the happiness and pleasure that my victory has brought dear Teacher.

There is still time, my dear.

I hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father's wish?

The development of the petroleum fields of the state has greatly stimulated manufactures, as coal has always been dear, whereas the crude oil is now produced very cheaply.

The misery of those years was not, however, unrelieved; for he had been able, on the breaking up of Heloise's convent at Argenteuil, to establish her as head of a new religious house at the deserted Paraclete, and in the capacity of spiritual director he often was called to revisit the spot thus made doubly dear to him.

After 1830, however, many highways were opened, these being usually excellent among the mountains but deteriorating as they descend into the lowlands, where stone is dear.

You known what I have said; sooner or later we must part from all we hold most dear.

There had hardly ever been a period when food had been so dear, when wages had been so low, when poverty had been so widespread, and the condition of the lower orders so depraved and so hopeless, as in the early years of the queens reign.

Dr Nugent eventually took up his residence with his son-in-law in London, and became a popular member of that famous group of men of letters and artists whom Boswell has made so familiar and so dear to all later generations.

The excavation of it was undertaken by Russians about 1894 and it cost Dembre dear; for the Ottoman government, suspicious of foreign designs on the neighbouring harbour of Kekova, proceeded to inhibit all sale of property in the plain and to place Dembre under a minor state of siege.

They could count on the populace, because work was still scarce, food was still dear, and a multi- progress tude of Parisians knew not where to find bread.

He had been sufficiently an optimist to believe in the triumph of the liberal but non-republican institutions dear to him under the restoration, under Louis Philippe and Louis Napoleon successively.

Even the costume of the Croatian peasantry, to whom brilliant colours and intricate embroideries are always dear, proclaims their racial identity with the Serbs; their songs, dances and musical instruments, the chief part of their customs and folk-lore, their whole manner of life, so little changed by its closer contact with Western civilization, may be studied in Servia (q.v.) itself.

Should a man's son or friend dear to him as his own soul seek to tempt him from the faith of his fathers, D's pitiless order to that man is "Thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death."

Its reimposition, officially supported for the sake of necessary revenue in war-time, and cordially welcomed by the Unionist party, had justified itself, as they contended, in spite of the criticisms of the Opposition (who raised the cry of the "dear loaf"), by proving during the year to have had no general or direct effect on the price of bread.

Provisions were scarce and dear, communication with the rest of the world was infrequent, and in 1807 the community was threatened with starvation, and flour was sold at £ 200 per ton.

You, dear sir or madam, are making mistakes while I would never slip so blatantly.