Usually means: Invites or summons with gesture.
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  1. beckons: Merriam-Webster
  2. beckons: Collins English Dictionary
  3. beckons: Vocabulary.com
  4. Beckons, beckons: Wordnik
  5. beckons: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. beckons: Wiktionary
  7. beckons: Dictionary.com
  8. beckons: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. beckons: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. beckons: Legal dictionary

(Note: See beckon as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (beckon)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To seem attractive and inviting.
noun:  A sign made without words; a beck.
noun:  A children's game similar to hide and seek in which children who have been "caught" may escape if they see another hider beckon to them.
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