📚 noun • entry_id 42977
term of endearment
Meanings (ES + gloss)
expresión entrañable • palabra de afecto • palabra tierna / afectuosa / cariñosa • término de cariño / entrañamiento
A word, phrase, or nickname used as a term of address expressing affection; it is often a diminutive.
"Kun" is a term of endearment often used in Japan for small boys. Yoshi-kun lived with his parents and grandparents in a house in Takasaki.
The words had such a softening influence, that he appended a term of endearment to Mrs. Dombey's name (though not without some hesitation, as being a man but little used to that fo…
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