Fiancé or fiancée.
"She told her friends she was moving to Paris soon since she had just become engaged to her intended."
In plain English: An intended is someone you plan to marry.
"The intended for the new job arrived this morning to start his training."
Usage: Use "intended" only in formal or traditional contexts to refer to a person engaged to be married, often appearing in phrases like "my intended." In modern everyday speech, it is far more common and natural to use the specific terms fiancé or fiancée instead.
simple past tense and past participle of intend
"She intended to visit her grandmother, but a sudden storm forced her to stay home instead."
In plain English: To intend something means to have a plan to do it or make it happen.
"The letter was intended to be sent yesterday."
Usage: Use "intended" to describe an action that was planned or aimed at but did not actually happen, such as in "I intended to call you yesterday." It functions as the simple past tense or past participle of the verb intend to show a specific goal that remained unrealized.
Planned.
"The intended destination of our road trip was always to visit the coastal town before sunset."
In plain English: Intended means something that was planned or meant to happen, even if it didn't actually occur.
"He was clearly intended for a leadership role within the company."
Usage: Use "intended" to describe something that was planned or designed for a specific purpose before it happened. It often appears in phrases like "the intended recipient" to indicate who was originally meant to receive an item or message.
Derived from Old French entendre, intended originally meant to understand or perceive something clearly. It later evolved in Middle English to signify having formed a plan or purpose, specifically regarding marriage or other formal arrangements.