heart
Pronunciation: /hɑːʔ/
The English word “heart” has 20 meanings listed here.
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.
- 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.
- 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 main fraction or product of a distillation run.
verb
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…
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