beloved character
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- noun
- /bɪˈlʌvd ˈkɛrɪktər/
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personaje querido
- Pixar's amazing Toy Story trilogy may be over, but they have been kind enough to give us a few shorts featuring the beloved characters.
- the most beloved character
- the death of a beloved character
- many beloved characters
I think writers all fall in love with the craft, all fall in love with the words on the page and the story and their beloved characters.
- I think writers all fall in love with the craft, all fall in love with the words on the page and the story and their beloved characters.
Examples
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Consider one of the most famous beloved characters of all time, Kermit the Frog.
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The tragic ending of the film deeply affected fans because the main hero was a beloved character.
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Killing and replacing a beloved character makes enemies of his fans.
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I actually understand he's a beloved character and people feel they know him.
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Taking an especially beloved character and 'ruining' them can have the same effect.
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Elmo is such a beloved character, and what Clash brought to this red ball of personality could be difficult to replicate.
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Mick Foley's Mankind character had become one of the most beloved characters in the WWF, but by early 2000, his career was winding down.
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The first chapter is a wonderful imagining of how some of the most beloved characters in 19th-century Russian literature would have coped in the Soviet regime of the 20th century.
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Readers would often weep as a beloved character perished under the writer's nib, yet the distinct beauty of the language never overshadowed the blunt force of the story, for the themes embedded in Jack Cardinal's tales were powerful indeed.
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Many readers consider Elizabeth Bennet to be one of the most beloved characters in English literature.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person or thing you like more than others
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A person or thing many fans like most
Antonyms
How Loved
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'beloved character' is directly compositional: 'beloved' (much loved) modifies 'character' (a fictional person), so the meaning is simply a character who is greatly loved. This adjectival + noun combination is literal and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Beloved character paints a simple picture: a character is a person in a story and beloved means greatly loved, like an actor who gets letters and flowers from fans. That's why beloved character means 'a character who is loved and admired by many'.