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# beckon

«beckon» in Mova's school dictionary: **to move the hand or head to call someone to come closer** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (beckons, beckoned, beckoning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To beckon is to move the hand or head to call someone to come closer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beckon/#m1)

2) To beckon can also mean to attract or tempt, as bright lights seem to call you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beckon/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a light, a window or a bright thing that seems to call someone in

### examples

- She beckoned to me with her hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beckon/#x1)
- The waves beckoned the children to the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beckon/#x2)
- The lights of the town beckoned to us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beckon/#x3)
- He nodded and beckoned us in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beckon/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beckon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beckon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.