Usually means: Inviting someone to come closer.
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  1. beckoning: Merriam-Webster
  2. beckoning: Collins English Dictionary
  3. beckoning: Vocabulary.com
  4. Beckoning, beckoning: Wordnik
  5. beckoning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. beckoning: Wiktionary
  7. Beckoning, beckoning: Dictionary.com
  8. beckoning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Beckoning (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Beckoning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Beckoning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. beckoning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. beckoning: FreeDictionary.org
  14. beckoning: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beckoning: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (beckoning)

▸ adjective:  That beckons.
▸ noun:  Such a wave or similar action.

Similar:
wave, asking, bantering, blinking, crying, groaning, clamant, clamatory, tickling, conclamant, more...

Opposite:
beckon, invite

Types:
summoning, inviting, welcoming, alluring, enticing, more...

Phrases:
Beckoning sign, beckoning sound, beckoning elision, opposite of beckoning, more...

Adjectives:
individual, significant, first, sad, more, silent, white, friendly, vague, constant, visible

Colors:
    cerulean,     emerald,     lavender,     coral,     amber, more...



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Similar:
wave, asking, bantering, blinking, crying, groaning, clamant, clamatory, tickling, conclamant, more...

Opposite:
beckon, invite

Types:
summoning, inviting, welcoming, alluring, enticing, more...

Phrases:
Beckoning sign, beckoning sound, beckoning elision, opposite of beckoning, more...

Adjectives:
individual, significant, first, sad, more, silent, white, friendly, vague, constant, visible

Colors:
    cerulean,     emerald,     lavender,     coral,     amber, more...



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