0 past simple and past participle of beckon
1 to move your hand or head in a way that tells someone to come nearer:
That was the uncharted territory that beckoned to the young and bold.
A range of new frontiers beckoned the importunate eighteenth-century barrister.
After more than a decade of continual political failure, emigration beckoned.
Readers of the later textbooks are beckoned to take the psychologist's standpoint - that is, to acquire the ability to know with certainty the "real" of life experiences.
I beckoned to him to try to find out from him how late he wanted us to sit tonight.
By that time he came to the door and beckoned me, and pointed to the corner of a room of the house.
Nevertheless, at that meeting she urged people to move from areas where there was unemployment to areas where opportunity beckoned.
I beckoned to you as to a powerful angel.
