Beckon

Definitions: Beckon

Beckon

Verb

1. Signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably".

2. Appear inviting; "The shop window decorations beckoned".

3. Summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture.

Date "beckon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

Synonym: Beckon

Synonym: wave (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Command	Cite, summon; call for, send for; subpoena; beckon.
Indication	Make a sign; n. signalize; underscore; give a signal, hang out a signal; beckon; nod; wink, glance, leer, nudge, shrug, tip the wink; gesticulate; raise the finger, hold up the finger, raise the hand, hold up the hand; saw the air, "suit the action to the word".
Motive	Verb: induce, move; draw, draw on; bring in its train, give an impulse; Noun: to; inspire; put up to, prompt, call up; attract, beckon.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Beckon

English words defined with "beckon": Beckoned, Beckoning. (references)

Specialty definitions using "beckon": Dying Sayings. (references)

Etymologies containing "beckon": Nictate. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Beckon (reference) Slim Fingers Beckon (reference) You Beckon (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Lettie Beckon Alston: Keyboard Maniac (reference) Spirits Beckon You (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Now, God may beckon me away.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Beckon" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 59.52% of the time. "Beckon" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)	59.52%	25	69,787
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	40.48%	17	85,106
Total	100.00%	42	N/A

Expressions using "beckon": beckon in ♦ beckon smb. in. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "beckon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		bëj shenjë që të vijë, bëj një shenjë. (various references)

Arabic		‏ومأ (gesticulate, gesture, mime, nod, sign, signal), ‏أغرى (addict, bait, bring, entice, importune, induce, inveigle, invite, lead on, seduce, suborn, tempt, undo), ‏أشار (advert, allude, beckon in, connote, denote, designate, indicate, mark, mark out, mention, motion, point, point at, point out, read, record, refer, reference, show, sign, signalize, suggest), ‏دعا (allege, bid, call, claim, contend, enter a plea, feign, fetch, invite, name, plead, profess, purport, recall, set up, summon, term, warn). (various references)

Bulgarian		махвам (throw off), повиквам (call, call away, call in, call out, call up, convene, send for, summon). (various references)

Chinese		點� �招呼 , 招手 (to wave), 召�"� (Beckoned, Beckoning, Conjure, Conjured, Conjuring, Evoke, Evoked, Evoking, summon, Summoned, summoning, summons, Summonses). (various references)

Czech		vábit (attract, entice, tempt, woo), pokynout (hint, wave on), lákat (allure, draw, entice, lure, tempt, woo), kývnout na, kývat (vibrate). (various references)

Farsi		اشاره کردن(باسریادست), اشاره (Allusion, Beck, Ensign, Gesture, Hint, Inkling, Innuendo, Manifest, Mention, Referral, Slur, Symbol), بااشاره صدازدن . (various references)

Finnish		viitata (allude, hint, hold up one's hand, indicate, motion, point, point out, refer, suggest). (various references)

French		faire signe � (beckon in), attirer, appeler. (various references)

German		winken (coil, hail, signal, wave). (various references)

Greek		κάνω νόημα, γνέφω (gesture, motion, signal). (various references)

Hebrew		לאותת (give signs, indicate, sign, signal), לרמוז בת� ועת י�" (motion), אות (cue, decoration, emblem, indication, letter, note, sign, signal, signature, symbol, token), רמיז�" (allusion, cue, hint, implication, mention). (various references)

Hungarian		bólint (nod, to beckon, to bow, to nod), odahív (to beckon, to call), int (motion, to admonish, to exhort, to gesture, to motion, to waft, to wave one's hand). (various references)

Indonesian		mengisyaratkan (signal), menghimbau (call, make a call, name, summon), memanggil (address, call, calling, page, summon). (various references)

Italian		accennare (acquaint, advert, allude, hint, infer, intimate, outline, show signs, sign, wave to). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		手招く　 (to beckon), 手招く (to beckon), 差し招く (to beckon). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さしまねく (to beckon), てまねく (to beckon). (various references)

Manx		smeidey (beck, beckoning, nod, nodding). (various references)

Norwegian		vinke. (various references)

Pig Latin		eckonbay

Portuguese		gesto (action, gesture, motion, movement), aceno (Beck, Bob, gesture, mark, sign, signal, token, wave), acenar (motion, shake, wave). (various references)

Romanian		face semn (Beck, motion, wave), chema printr-un gest. (various references)

Russian		манить (dangle). (various references)

Scottish		smèid (wink). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prizvati rukom, dati znak (motion, sign). (various references)

Spanish		llamar (appeal to, buzz, call, call back, call in, call off, call over, call up, call upon, draw, engage, get, get on to, give a ring, have in, hit, hollo, holloa, invoke, knock, knock up, name, recall, ring, ring the bell, ring up, strike, summon, term, to call, touch off, whip in), hacer señas (sign), atraer (allure, appeal, appeal to, arrest, attire, attract, beat up, bring in, draw, draw in, engage, entice, fetch, inveigle, invoke, lure, pull, pull in, tempt). (various references)

Swedish		vinka till sig. (various references)

Thai		ส่งสัญญา�"เรียกโ�"ยการใช้มือหรือศีรษะ, ทำให้สนใจ. (various references)

Turkish		baş işareti yapmak, işaretle çağırmak, işaret etmek (betoken, designate, indicate, make a sign, point, point at, point out, point to, sign, signal, signalize). (various references)

Ukranian		кивок (nod, nutation), вабливий жест, вабити, ловецький пищик, підкликати кивком голови. (various references)

Welsh		arwyddoca/u (denote, indicate, signify), amneidio (nod). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "beckon": beckoned, beckoner, beckoners, beckoning, beckons. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Beckon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Backo, Baikonn, Bakkon, beakon, Bechor, Becka, becon, Beeko, bekenn, bekko, bekkos, bekon, Berkton, Berkun, Bichon, Bicknor, Bocconi, Breckin, Breckon, buchon, Buckow, Bwciod, cecconi, ecko, Leckonby. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "beckon" (pronounced be"kun)
4	-e" k u n	reckon, second.
3	-k u n	awaken, bacon, beacon, blacken, bracken, broken, chicken, darken, deacon, drunken, falcon, forsaken, gascon, harken, heartbroken, housebroken, interleukin, lichen, liken, Macon, misspoken, mistaken, outspoken, overtaken, Pekin, pelican, Pipkin, pumpkin, quicken, reawaken, republican, retaken, shaken, shrunken, sicken, silicon, slacken, spoken, stricken, sunken, taken, thicken, token, unbroken, undertaken, unshaken, unspoken, waken, weaken, woken, zircon.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-k-n-o"
	-2 letters: beck, bock, bone, bonk, coke, cone, conk, ebon, keno, knob, neck, nock, once.
	-3 letters: ben, cob, con, eon, ken, kob, neb, nob, obe, oke, one.
	-4 letters: be, bo, en, ne, no, oe, on.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-k-n-o"
	+1 letter: beckons.
	+2 letters: backbone, beckoned, beckoner.
	+3 letters: backbones, beckoners, beckoning, bemocking, cheekbone, unblocked, workbench.
	+4 letters: becloaking, bottleneck, cheekbones, cornerback.
	+5 letters: bottlenecks, cabinetwork, cinderblock, cornerbacks, knucklebone, shacklebone, unshockable, workbenches.
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