DEAREST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dearest mean? 

• DEAREST (noun)
  The noun DEAREST has 1 sense:

1. a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

  Familiarity information: DEAREST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEAREST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A beloved person; used as terms of endearment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

beloved; dear; dearest; honey; love

Hypernyms ("dearest" is a kind of...):

lover (a person who loves someone or is loved by someone)

 Context examples 

Not, of course, but that Sophy is beautiful too in my eyes, and would be one of the dearest girls that ever was, in anybody's eyes (I should think).

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Up that staircase the way led to the love-master and to the love- master's dearest possessions.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Your English 'you' is so cold, say 'thou', heart's dearest, it means so much to me, pleaded Mr. Bhaer, more like a romantic student than a grave professor.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Dearest Miss Morland, what ideas have you been admitting?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

My dearest Anne, it would give me more delight than is often felt at my time of life!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

My dearest, don't mention governesses; the word makes me nervous.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My dearest Lucy,—Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed with work.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Dearest niece, said my father, dry your tears.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“I am, as you are aware, Lord Avon’s dearest friend,” said my uncle, sternly.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Had I my dearest wish, it would be that we should go together.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)