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beckon | unbeckoned |

As a verb beckon

is to wave and/or to nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.

As a noun beckon

is a sign made without words; a beck.

As an adjective unbeckoned is

without having been beckoned.

beckon

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To wave and/or to nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
  • * Dryden
    • His distant friends, he beckons near.
  • * Shakespeare
    • It beckons you to go away with it.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sign made without words; a beck.
  • * Bolingbroke
    • At the first beckon .

    unbeckoned

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without having been beckoned.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 10, author=Michael Powell, title=New York: Yours, Mine and Theirs, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=It’s not that Mr. Foner harbors no worry about an attack; his mind can wander unbeckoned to such horrors as a terrorist bomb exploding in the Lincoln Tunnel. }}