cherishverb [ T ]
uk/ˈtʃer.ɪʃ/us/ˈtʃer.ɪʃ/to love, protect, and care for someone or something that is important to you:
Although I cherish my children, I do allow them their independence.
Her most cherished possession is a 1926 letter from F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Freedom of speech is a cherished (= carefully protected) right in this country.
to keep hopes, memories, or ideas in your mind because they are important to you and bring you pleasure:
I cherish the memories of the time we spent together.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Loving and in love
- absence
- absence makes the heart grow fonder idiom
- adoring
- affection
- apple
- carry
- dear
- have (got) it bad idiom
- head over heels (in love) idiom
- infatuated
- infatuation
- live for sth/sb
- lose
- romance
- romantic
- serious
- smitten
- stuck
- sweep sb off their feet idiom
- take a shine to sb idiom
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