beckonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈbɛkən/
• 韻: -ɛkən

動詞

beckon (third-person singular simple present beckons, present participle beckoning, simple past and past participle beckoned)

1. (ambitransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     His distant friends, he beckons near.

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

     It beckons you to go away with it.

2. (ambitransitive) To seem attractive and inviting.
   • 2016, “Into the Unknown”, in Brandon Michael Armstrong, Joshua Ross Kaufman, Justin Isaac Rubenstein, Patrick Nolen McHale (lyrics), Over the Garden Wall (Original Television Soundtrack)‎, performed by Jack Jones:

     How the gentle wind / Beckons through the leaves / As autumn colors fall

派生語

名詞

beckon (plural beckons)

1. A sign made without words; a beck.
   • c. 1734, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, A Dissertation on Parties:

     At the first beckon.

   • 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 110:

     He turn to me, make a beckon with the key in his hand.

2. A children's game similar to hide and seek in which children who have been "caught" may escape if they see another hider beckon to them.