CHERISHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cherished mean? 

• CHERISHED (adjective)
  The adjective CHERISHED has 1 sense:

1. characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for

  Familiarity information: CHERISHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHERISHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for

Synonyms:

cherished; precious; treasured; wanted

Context example:

so good to feel wanted

Similar:

loved (held dear)

 Context examples 

She died, and left this one child, whom for her sake I have cherished and cared for.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He then said that she was the daughter of a French opera-dancer, Celine Varens, towards whom he had once cherished what he called a "grande passion."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The feeble flame must be cherished tenderly if it were to gather strength and live.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was the cherished belief of each that he did more than his share of the work, and neither forbore to speak this belief at every opportunity.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Beth cherished them all the more tenderly for that very reason, and set up a hospital for infirm dolls.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If thou wert yet alive and yet cherished a desire of revenge against me, it would be better satiated in my life than in my destruction.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But he found, in reply to this question, that Wickham still cherished the hope of more effectually making his fortune by marriage in some other country.

(Pride and Prejudice, 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)

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)

What was of value to the master he valued; what was dear to the master was to be cherished by White Fang and guarded carefully.

(White Fang, by Jack London)