heart
heart (härt)
noun
- the hollow, muscular organ in a vertebrate animal that receives blood from the veins and pumps it through the arteries by alternate dilation and contraction
- an analogous part in most invertebrate animals
- the part of the human body thought of as containing the heart; breast; bosom
- any place or part like a heart, in that it is near the center; specif.,
- the central core of a plant or vegetable hearts of celery
- the center or innermost part of a place or region the heart of a city
- the central, vital, or main part; real meaning; essence; core
- the human heart considered as the center or source of emotions, personality attributes, etc.; specif.,
- inmost thought and feeling; consciousness or conscience to know in one's heart
- the source of emotions
- one's emotional nature; disposition to have a kind heart
- any of various humane feelings; love, devotion, sympathy, etc.
- mood; feeling to have a heavy heart
- spirit, resolution, or courage to lose heart
- a person, usually one loved or admired in some specified way he is a valiant heart
- something like a heart in shape; conventionalized design or representation of a heart, shaped like this: ♥
- any of a suit of playing cards marked with such figures in red
- this suit of cards
- ☆ a card game in which the object is either to avoid winning any hearts or the queen of spades, or to win all the hearts and the queen of spades
Etymology: ME herte < OE heorte, akin to Ger herz < IE base *erd-, ṙd-, heart > L cor, (gen. cordis), Gr kardia, OIr cride, Serb sr̈ce
transitive verb
after someone's own heart
at heart
break someone's heart
by heart
change of heart
☆do someone's heart good
eat one's heart out
from (the bottom of) one's heart
have a heart
☆have one's heart in one's mouth
or have one's heart in one's bootshave one's heart in the right place
heart and soul
in one's heart of hearts
lose one's heart (to)
near someone's heart
set someone's heart at rest
set one's heart on
steal someone's heart
take heart
take to heart
- to consider seriously
- to be troubled or grieved by
to one's heart's content
wear one's heart on one's sleeve
with all one's heart
- with complete sincerity, devotion, etc.
- very willingly; with pleasure
with half a heart
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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