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Synonyms for beckon

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for beckon

signal with the hands or nod

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appear inviting

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summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture

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The Motherland Beckons and One Benin Fiesta train moved to the Akpakpa Stadium, Cotonou on Sunday, January 20, to the warm embrace of about fifty thousand Cotonou Youths.
January 13 1976: Wembley beckons! Big Jack's Boro are installed as favourites after a convincing 1-0 Ayresome Park win over Manchester City in the semi-final of the League Cup.
Call my star line now to hear which new flirtation beckons.
She who played the melody of loving service through the dingy lanes of Motijheel slums and put a smile on the lips of the leprosy patients beckons us to make everything that we do an act of love for Jesus the Eternal Lover.
The actor says New York "beckons" after the success of the US version of The Office, and his hosting of the Golden Globes, made him a household name.
Hampl jokes that the sight of a confession booth beckons to her to "Open the door, open your heart....
And it's that type of success and teamwork over long days and nights, working side by side with their Iraqi counterpart, that beckons SDDC Soldiers to go above and beyond the call of duty, according to Johnson.
Far below, the frosted/Front Range beckons. From opposite directions//our planes approach; somewhere in the terminal/we'll find each other before the next flight.
In contrast to Bilbao, which beckons from afar, MARTa creeps up on you.
They endure terrible desert heat and even snakebite, manage to escape the smugglers, and finally make it to "the land of opportunity," where work as a migrant field laborer beckons.
With more than 60 plant species found in as little as three square feet, the forest beckons numerous plant and butterfly species.
Much of the reading beckons the right brain, but there also are suggestions and exercises to help the left brain achieve these higher states.
Poignant and wistful certainly but melancholic and forlorn to boot, the repetitive act of stroking the window through which Manhattan beckons seems an act of obeisance, an acknowledgment of the fractious relationship between Manhattan and Brooklyn, a paean to the city just an arm's reach away, a wish to serve and groom it.