Synonyms for cherish
ˈtʃɛr ɪʃcher·ish

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. cherish

   To cherish is both to hold dear and to treat as dear. Mere unexpressed esteem would not be cherishing. In the marriage vow, "to love, honor, and cherish," the word cherish implies all that each can do by love and tenderness for the welfare and happiness of the other, as by support, protection, care in sickness, comfort in sorrow, sympathy, and help of every kind. To nurse is to tend the helpless or feeble, as infants, or the sick or wounded. To nourish is strictly to sustain and build up by food; to nurture includes careful mental and spiritual training, with something of love and tenderness; to foster is simply to maintain and care for, to bring up; a foster-child will be nourished, but may not be as tenderly nurtured or as lovingly cherished as if one's own. In the figurative sense, the opinion one cherishes he holds, not with mere cold conviction, but with loving devotion.

   See synonyms for ABANDON; CHASTEN.

   Synonyms:
   cheer, cling to, comfort, encourage, entertain, foster, harbor, hold dear, nourish, nurse, nurture, protect, shelter, treasure, value

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. cherish

   Synonyms:
   foster, nurse, promote, nourish, nurture, comfort, protect, entertain, value, encourage

   Antonyms:
   stifle, abandon, discard, discourage, check

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. care for, cherish, hold dear, treasureverb

   be fond of; be attached to

   Synonyms:
   prize, treasure, value, appreciate, treat, care for, hold dear

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1. • Love

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1. harbors

   to complete something and to have a good feeling of doing it.

   i fixed my bike and now im happy

   Submitted by collinkt27 on September 15, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cherishverb

   Synonyms:
   nurture, foster, nourish, nurse, sustain, support, comfort, care for, treat tenderly

2. cherishverb

   Synonyms:
   harbor, entertain, indulge, encourage, hold dear, embrace heartily

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1. cherishverb

   Synonyms:
   treasure

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1. List of paraphrases for "cherish":

   treasure, treasured, cherished

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How to use cherish in a sentence?

1. Max Eastman:

   The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

2. Proverb:

   If you love it let it go. If it returns to you cherish it, if not it was never truly yours.

3. Claudia Cuellar:

   There will be time to mourn when he dies, until that day, I will love and cherish and celebrate him and try to make each day as loving and happy and comfortable as possible for him.

4. Wendell Berry:

   To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

5. Fan Liqing:

   We welcome Taiwan compatriots to participate in memorial activities, and hope people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait can always remember history, cherish the memory of martyrs and rally together through war victory activities.