Cherish meaning: Cherish means to love

Cherish means to love, protect, and care for someone or something that is important to you, or to keep hopes, memories, or ideas in your mind. See the pronunciation, synonyms, and usage examples of cherish from the Cambridge Dictionary. What does cherish mean? Cherish means to treasure —to hold or treat something as dear and often loved.The word implies a deep and active appreciation of the person or thing that’s cherished. The meaning of CHERISH is to hold dear : feel or show affection for. How to use cherish in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Cherish. Synonyms for CHERISH : love, adore, fall for, carry the torch (for), worship, idolize, revere, idealize; Antonyms of CHERISH : hate, despise, detest, loathe, abhor ...