heart

Plural: hearts

Noun

• the locus of feelings and intuitions
  • "in your heart you know it is true"
• the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body
  • "he stood still, his heart thumping wildly"
• the courage to carry on
  • "you haven't got the heart for baseball"
• an area that is approximately central within some larger region
  • "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"
• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
  • "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"
• an inclination or tendency of a certain kind
  • "he had a change of heart"
• a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines
  • "he drew a heart and called it a valentine"
• a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal)
  • "a five-pound beef heart will serve six"
• a positive feeling of liking
  • "the child won everyone's heart"
• a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it
  • "he led the queen of hearts"
  • "hearts were trumps"
• A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
• One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character.
• The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.
• Emotional strength that allows one to continue in difficult situations; courage; spirit; a will to compete.
• Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
• A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
• Memory.
• A wight or being.
• A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥.
• A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
• The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
• The centre, essence, or core.
• The centre, essence, or core.
• The main fraction or product of a distillation run.

Verb

Verb Forms: hearted, hearting, hearts

• To give courage or hope to; to encourage.
• To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
• To mark a comment, post, reply, etc., with the heart symbol (❤).
• To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
• To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
• To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.

Examples

• a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart
• Buddhists believe that suffering is right at the heart of all life.
• He knew his strong defensive play would HEART his teammates in the Words With Friends tournament.
• I know almost every Beatles song by heart.
• Listen, dear heart, we must go now.
• She has a cold heart.
• She hearted my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.
• That is the heart of the matter
• The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart.
• The wood at the heart of a tree is the oldest.

Synonyms

affection, affectionateness, bosom, center, centre, core, essence, eye, fondness, gist, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, mettle, middle, nerve, nitty-gritty, nub, philia, pith, pump, spirit, spunk, substance, sum, tenderness, ticker, warmheartedness, warmness, Wearside), audacity, babber, babe, baby, babycakes, bae, balls, bield, boldhead, boldness, bowels, brass tacks, bravehood, braveness, bravery, bubba, bully, buttercup, cabbage, chickabiddy, chickadee, chuck, courage, courageousness, crux, cupcake, cutie, dag, daring, darling, dear, dear heart, dearest, dearie, dearling, deets, details, dialectal (chiefly Geordie, doll, doodlebug, dove, drift, duck, ducky, dumpling, fam, fearlessness, gravamen, grit, guts, heart, heartface, heartling, heartmate, heartstring, heartstrings, hinny, hon, honey, honey bun, honeybug, honeybunch, honeybunny, honeycakes, honeypie, informal or poetic), intrepidity, intrepidness, jewel, jo, kidder, lambchop, lambkin, lass (archaic except UK, less than three, liefling, little one, love, lovebug, loveling, lovie, luvvy, m'dear, miting, mood, moppet, mopsy, moral of the story, mouse, muffin, muss, nuts and bolts, old bean, old sport, ovaries, pally, pecker, pet, petal, pluck, poppet, pug, pumpkin, punctum saliens, pussums, pussy, quintessence, sausage, schnookums, shug, snicklefritz, snookums, snuggums, soul, squishy, steel, stuff, sug, sugar, sugar baby, sugar beet, sugar-plum, sugarpie, sweet pea, sweetcheeks, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetie pie, sweetling, sweets, tenor, treasure, undauntedness, valour, woobie

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<3, clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades, ♥, ❤, 🫀

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