Sweetheart
['swiːthɑːt] or ['swit'hɑrt]
Definition
(noun.) any well-liked individual; 'he's a sweetheart'.
(noun.) a person loved by another person.
(adj.) privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically); 'another sweetheart deal based on political influence' .
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Definition
(n.) A lover of mistress.
Editor: Olivia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Lover, beau, wooer, admirer, CICISBEO.[2]. Flame, mistress, lady-love.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that your sweetheart is affable and of pleasing physique, foretells that you will woo a woman who will prove a joy to your pride and will bring you a good inheritance. If she appears otherwise, you will be discontented with your choice before the marriage vows are consummated. To dream of her as being sick or in distress, denotes that sadness will be intermixed with joy. If you dream that your sweetheart is a corpse, you will have a long period of doubt and unfavorable fortune. See Lover, Hugging, and Kissing.
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Examples
- Will you give me a letter saying those words, which I can show to my sweetheart when he asks how I got the money? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Are you awake, sweetheart? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She never had a sweetheart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He's been down to Florida to see his sweetheart. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Have you forgot your old sweetheart? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Your sweetheart--Fortune, I mean--was perfectly indulgent. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Neither baronet, nor duke, nor prince should have snatched my sweetheart from me without a struggle. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But, for the girl's own sake, I must ask you at once whether SHE has provided herself with a sweetheart, poor wretch, like the rest of them? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He is too bonny to be false, said Jessy, looking up to her tall sweetheart with the fullest confidence in his faith. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I cannot, Diggory, marry you, or think of letting you call me your sweetheart. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It might be that Joe, who fought on the side of Christendom, had a sweetheart, and that Jim, who fought on the side of the Moslem, had one likewise. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I thought at the time that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Your old sweetheart an't far off, and she's a blabber. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I shouldn't tell you, if you was by yourself; much less with your old sweetheart here. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There was a handsome young house-breaker, whose favourable witness was his sweetheart. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And she knew that under this dark and lonely bridge the young colliers stood in the darkness with their sweethearts, in rainy weather. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- By and by, he said: 'No sweethearts, I b'lieve? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- So the colliers' lovers would stand with their backs to the walls, holding their sweethearts and kissing them as she was being kissed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They brought their sweethearts and wives, so gradually the community grew up here. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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