Definition of Dear

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Definition of Dear

Dear

Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.

Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year.

Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious.

Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention.

Of agreeable things and interests.

Of disagreeable things and antipathies.

A dear one; lover; sweetheart.

Dearly; at a high price.

To endear.

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Dear Quotations

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Benjamin Franklin

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mohandas Gandhi

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
John F. Kennedy

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Voltaire

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Jane Austen

Dear Translations

dear in Afrikaans is geag, duur
dear in Dutch is geacht, gezien
dear in Finnish is kallis
dear in French is cher
dear in German is liebe, lieb, lieb, lieber, sehr geehrte
dear in Italian is caro
dear in Latin is carus
dear in Portuguese is caro
dear in Spanish is estimado, caro

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