beloveds
Saybi-LUVDZ/bɪˈlʌvdz/
- 1Plural of beloved.
The minister addressed the congregation as his beloveds at the start of the sermon.
Old photographs lined the wall, each one a portrait of her departed beloveds.
Note
A plural that only the noun can take. The adjective beloved, as in a beloved teacher, never adds -s, so beloveds marks the word as standing on its own. It began as the past participle of an obsolete verb, belove, and it still covers things as well as people: one's beloveds may be books or places. The plural has a slightly literary, homiletic ring, and the word is far commoner as a singular endearment.
beloveds is a form of beloved
beloved, noun: A person or thing that is dearly loved. Full entry
- Forms
- belovedbeloveds plural
- Spelling
- beloved → beloveds: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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