adjective, noun
adjective (old-fashioned)
1 used when writing to sb you love:
'Dearest Nina', the letter began.
2 [usuallybeforenoun] that you feel deeply:
It was her dearest wish to have a family.
noun (old-fashioned) used when speaking to sb you love:
Come (my) dearest, let's go home.
IDIOMS see NEARn.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for dearest is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does dearest appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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