LOVED ONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loved one mean? 

• LOVED ONE (noun)
  The noun LOVED ONE has 1 sense:

1. a person who you love, usually a member of your family

  Familiarity information: LOVED ONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOVED ONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who you love, usually a member of your family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("loved one" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

 Context examples 

A state of sadness, grief, and mourning after the loss of a loved one.

(Bereavement, NCI Dictionary)

The normal response to a major loss, such as the death of a loved one.

(Grief, NCI Dictionary)

Treatment that helps a person work through a greater than normal reaction to a loss, such as the death of a loved one.

(Grief therapy, NCI Dictionary)

Murray said the next step is to study whether adding vitamin A to antibiotics, given to family members of a loved one with TB, would offer additional protection against the disease.

(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)

Her idea of love was more that of placid affection, serving the loved one softly in an atmosphere, flower-scented and dim-lighted, of ethereal calm.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And, best of all, I felt myself the protector of my loved one.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The process by which a trained counselor or a support group helps a person work through normal feelings of sorrow after a loss, such as the death of a loved one.

(Grief counseling, NCI Dictionary)

Young people, between the ages of 10 and 19, were found to have 20 times the risk of developing tuberculosis through close exposure to an infected loved one.

(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)

He did not know the way of love, nor its speech, while he was frightened at his loved one's clear innocence.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But I was learning the sweet lesson for myself that the soul transmuted itself, expressed itself, through the flesh; that the sight and sense and touch of the loved one’s hair was as much breath and voice and essence of the spirit as the light that shone from the eyes and the thoughts that fell from the lips.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)