heart
nounverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue
- United Kingdom//hɑːʔ//
- United Kingdom//hɑːt//
- United States//hɑɹt//
A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
noun
- 1
A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
[…] I did almoſt beleeve, that the motion of the Heart vvas knovvn to God alone: […]
- 2
One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character.
She has a cold heart.
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
"Do what the heart commands," Tothero says. "The heart is our only guide."
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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.
a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart
Her heart was singing.
- 4
Compassion.
If she had any heart she'd forgive me.
- 5
Affection
The chorus's singing won the hearts of the audience.
Upon his browes was pourtraid vgly death, / And in his eies the furies of his heart, / That ſhine as Comets, menacing reueng, / And caſts a pale complexion on his cheeks.
Calm and deep peace in this wide air, These leaves that redden to the fall; And in my heart, if calm at all, If any calm, a calm despair: […]
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Disposition
They didn't take the remarks in good heart.
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Emotional strength that allows one to continue in difficult situations; courage; spirit; a will to compete.
The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart.
She put her whole heart into making a go of the business.
Eve, recovering heart, replied.
The expelled nations take heart, and when they fled from one country, invaded another.
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Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
Both theſe unhappy Soils the Swain forbears, / And keeps a Sabbath of alternate Years: / That the ſpent Earth may gather heart again; / And, better'd by Ceſſation, bear the Grain.
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archaicA term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
Listen, dear heart, we must go now.
My King, my Jove, I speak to thee, my heart!
Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well./Awake.
Certain unscrupulous men may call upon you here in your dressing-room. They will lavish you with flowers, with compliments, with phials of Hungary water and methuselahs of the costliest champagne. You must be wary of such men, my hearts, they are not to be trusted.
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obsoleteMemory.
I know almost every Beatles song by heart.
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figurativeA wight or being.
[…] I would outstare the sternest eyes that look, / Outbrave the heart most daring on earth, / Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear, / Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,[…]
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A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥.
"Aw. Thank you." The Cherub kissed the air between them and sent a small cluster of tiny red hearts at her.
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A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
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The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
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figurativeThe centre, essence, or core.
That is the heart of the matter
The wood at the heart of a tree is the oldest.
Buddhists believe that suffering is right at the heart of all life.
At last she spoke in a low voice, hesitating slightly, nevertheless going with incisive directness into the very heart of the problem.
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figurativeThe centre, essence, or core. The main fraction or product of a distillation run.
Etymology
PIE word *ḱḗr Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- Proto-Indo-European *ḱérd Proto-Germanic *hertô Proto-West Germanic *hertā Old English heorte Middle English herte English heart From Middle English harte, heorrte, hert, herte, hierte, hirte, horte, huerte, hurte, from Old English heorte (“heart”), from Proto-West Germanic *hertā, from Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”), from *ḱerd- (“heart”). Doublet of cardia; see also core. Cognates Cognate with Scots hert (“heart”), Yola hart, hearth (“heart”), North Frisian hart, härt (“heart”), Saterland Frisian Haat (“heart”), West Frisian hert (“heart”), Alemannic German Härz (“heart”), Central Franconian Hatz, Hätz (“heart”), Cimbrian hèertze, hèrtz (“heart”), Dutch hart (“heart”), German Hertz, Herz, Herze (“heart”), Low German Hiärt (“heart”), Luxembourgish Häerz (“heart”), Mòcheno hèrz (“heart”), Vilamovian haoc (“heart”), West Flemish erte (“heart”), Yiddish האַרץ (harts), הערץ (herts, “heart”), Danish hierte, hjerte, hjærte (“heart”), Elfdalian järta (“heart”), Faroese and Icelandic hjarta (“heart”), Jutish jaart (“heart”), Norwegian Bokmål hjerte (“heart”), Norwegian Nynorsk hjarta, hjarte, hjerta, hjerte (“heart”), Swedish hjärta (“heart”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍄𐍉 (hairtō, “heart”); also Cornish kres (“centre, middle; waist”), Irish croí, croidhe (“heart; core; hub; sweetheart”), Manx cree (“heart”), Scottish Gaelic cridhe (“heart; courage; core; nucleus; sweetheart”), Welsh craidd (“centre, core, middle”), Latin cor (“heart”), Greek καρδιά (kardiá, “heart”), Albanian kërth (“askew”), Latgalian sirds (“heart”), Latvian sirde, sirds (“heart”), Lithuanian širdis (“heart”), Old Prussian seyr (“heart”), Belarusian сэ́рца (sérca, “heart”), Bulgarian сърце́ (sărcé, “heart; centre”), Czech and Slovak srdce (“heart”), Macedonian срце (srce, “heart”), Polish serce (“heart”), Russian се́рдце (sérdce, “heart”), Serbo-Croatian ср̏це, sȑce (“heart”), Slovene srce (“heart”), Ukrainian се́рце (sérce, “heart”), Armenian սիրտ (sirt, “heart”), Avestan 𐬰𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬛 (zərəd, “heart”), Baluchi زرد (zird, “heart; conscience”), Central Kurdish زر (zir, “heart”), Persian دل (del / dil, “heart; stomach; mind; courage”), Gurani زێڵ (zēł, “heart”), Northern Kurdish dil (“heart”), Ossetian зӕрдӕ (zærdæ, “heart; soul”), Pashto زړه (zrë, “heart”), Talysh dıl (“heart”), Zazaki zerri (“heart”), Hittite 𒆠𒅕 (ker), 𒊮𒅕 (ŠÀ-er, “heart”), Luwian 𒍝𒀀𒅈𒍝 (UZUzārza), 𔖪𔖱𔖪 (zārza, “heart”), Ashkun židi (“heart”), Kamkata-viri j̈arë, zërë (“heart”), Prasuni zër (“heart”), Tocharian A kri (“will”), Tocharian B *käryā- (“heart”), Sanskrit हृद् (hṛd, “heart; soul; breast, chest”). Most of the modern figurative senses (such as passion or compassion, spirit, inmost feelings, especially love, affection, and courage) were present in Old English. However, the meaning “center” dates from the early 14th century. The verb sense “to love” is from the 1977 I ❤ NY advertising campaign. Notes on spelling The spelling ⟨ear⟩ for /ɑː(ɹ)/ is paralleled by hearken and hearth, but is problematic since an Early Modern variant with /ɛːr/ can be posited for those words, but not heart. Perhaps it represents Middle Scots hart /hɛːrt/ (reflecting the Scots lengthening of /a/ before /r/ then a consonant, then the early actuation of the Great Vowel Shift in Scots) or a parallel development in Northern England. Alternatively, a back-spelling by speakers of dialects where preconsonantal /ɛːr/ was shortened early, allowing it to undergo the late Middle English lowering to /ar/ (reflected in forms such as larn "learn") is possible.
verb
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informalTo be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
We're but the sum of all our terrors until we heart the dove.
2006, Susan Reinhardt, Bulldog doesn't have to rely on the kindness of strangers to draw attention, Citizen-Times.com I guess at this point we were supposed to feel elated she'd come to her senses and decided she hearts dogs after all.
The further we delve into this "story", the more convinced we become of one thing: We heart the Goss.
2008 July 25, "The Media Hearts Obama?", On The Media, National Public Radio
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To mark a comment, post, reply, etc., with the heart symbol (❤).
She hearted my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.
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obsoleteTo give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
[…]My cause is hearted; thine hath no less reason.
- 4
To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
- 5
To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.
Forms
- plural
- hearts
- past tense
- hearted
- past participle
- hearted
- present participle
- hearting
- third person singular
- hearts
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