COVETED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coveted mean? 

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

1. greatly desired

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COVETED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greatly desired

Synonyms:

coveted; in demand; sought-after; sought after

Similar:

desirable (worth having or seeking or achieving)

 Context examples 

Buck trotted up to the place Spitz would have occupied as leader; but François, not noticing him, brought Sol-leks to the coveted position.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Uranus will send an unexpected beam to the eclipse of December 25, and you are likely to win a coveted assignment out of the blue.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"S'ant!" replied the young rebel, helping himself to the coveted 'cakie', and beginning to eat the same with calm audacity.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I coveted a cake of bread.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This interfered with the solitude I coveted for the prosecution of my task; yet at the commencement of my journey the presence of my friend could in no way be an impediment, and truly I rejoiced that thus I should be saved many hours of lonely, maddening reflection.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She valued his esteem, she coveted his respect, she wanted to be worthy of his friendship, and just when the wish was sincerest, she came near to losing everything.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings,—all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Sallie was very kind, and often offered her the coveted trifles, but Meg declined them, knowing that John wouldn't like it, and then this foolish little woman went and did what John disliked even worse.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Laurie knew this pillow well, and had cause to regard it with deep aversion, having been unmercifully pummeled with it in former days when romping was allowed, and now frequently debarred by it from the seat he most coveted next to Jo in the sofa corner.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I arranged them myself, remembering that you didn't like what Hannah calls a 'sot-bookay', said Laurie, handing her a delicate nosegay, in a holder that she had long coveted as she daily passed it in Cardiglia's window.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)