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heart
/hɑɹt/
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What does heart mean?
noun
- 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.
More meanings (19)
noun
- Compassion.
- Affection
- Disposition
- 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.
- (figuratively) 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.
- (figuratively) The centre, essence, or core.
- (figuratively) The main fraction or product of a distillation run.
- (archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
- (obsolete) Memory.
verb
- (humorous, informal) To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
- To mark a comment, post, reply, etc., with the heart symbol (❤).
- 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.
- (obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
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And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
As the weeks went by and she heard nothing from him, it seemed to Alexandra that her heart grew hard against Carl.
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These emotions, in fact, and its bitterest scorn besides, seemed to be the sole portion that she retained in the universal heart.
She only perceived that Anne had made a very thorough apology and all resentment vanished from her kindly, if somewhat officious, heart.
“Although I am of tin,” said the Woodman, “I own a heart altogether the warmest and most admirable in the whole world.”