Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To treat with affection and tenderness; hold dear.
- transitive verb To keep fondly in mind; treasure: synonym: appreciate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To hold as dear; treat with tenderness and affection; foster; nurture; support and encourage; shelter fondly; nurse; caress.
- To indulge and encourage in the mind; harbor; cling to: as, to
cherish forgiveness; to cherish revenge. - To give physical comfort or pleasure to; invigorate; strengthen; warm; hence, to provide for; entertain hospitably.
- Synonyms Foster, Cherish, Harbor. “To foster is to sustain and nourish with care and effort. To cherish is to hold and treat as dear. To harbor is to provide with shelter and protection, so as to give opportunity for working to something that might be and often ought to be excluded.”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
- transitive verb To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To treat with
tenderness andaffection ; tonurture with care; to protect and aid. - verb To hold dear; to
embrace with interest; toindulge ; toencourage ; tofoster ; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle. - verb obsolete To
cheer ,gladden .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be fond of; be attached to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I cannot sit idly by, while the way of life that I cherish is defiled.
Nick Joy: GM Salmon Is Just Plain Wrong Nick Joy 2010
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I cannot sit idly by, while the way of life that I cherish is defiled.
Nick Joy: GM Salmon Is Just Plain Wrong Nick Joy 2010
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One aspect of my marriage that I truly cherish is the way Darrell and I work together as a team.
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I cannot sit idly by, while the way of life that I cherish is defiled.
Nick Joy: GM Salmon Is Just Plain Wrong Nick Joy 2010
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I cannot sit idly by, while the way of life that I cherish is defiled.
Nick Joy: GM Salmon Is Just Plain Wrong Nick Joy 2010
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I cannot sit idly by, while the way of life that I cherish is defiled.
Nick Joy: GM Salmon Is Just Plain Wrong Nick Joy 2010
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I think even in a more refined society, where people value art (cherish, is probably a better word than value), that something like LOST is going to fail the moment it stops making money for somebody.
The Tail Section » Lost Pull’s a ‘Prisoner’ with Expose 2007
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The only rendering I cherish is a drawing my son did after his first deer hunting trip at age 9.
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In other words, you want the right to protect your family but still hold the belief that the family you love and cherish is merely the latest step in an evolutionary change.
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The objective, which has been driving our government's health-care agenda over the past two years, can be summed up as the desire to ensure that our medicare system, the one that we all cherish, is able to survive and to thrive for future generations.
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