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SWEETHEART
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A very attractive or seductive looking woman
Synonyms:
beauty; dish; knockout; looker; lulu; mantrap; peach; ravisher; smasher; stunner; sweetheart
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sweetheart" is a kind of...):
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any well-liked individual
Example:
he's a sweetheart
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("sweetheart" is a kind of...):
good person (a person who is good to other people)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person loved by another person
Synonyms:
steady; sweetheart; sweetie; truelove
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("sweetheart" is a kind of...):
lover (a person who loves someone or is loved by someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sweetheart"):
dulcinea; ladylove (a woman who is a man's sweetheart)
sugar daddy (a wealthy older man who gives a young person expensive gifts in return for friendship or intimacy)
valentine (a sweetheart chosen to receive a greeting on Saint Valentine's Day)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically)
Example:
another sweetheart deal based on political influence
Classified under:
Similar:
privileged (blessed with privileges)
Context examples:
Thinking back to late last month, a friend or sweetheart may have let you down at the difficult new moon October 27.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
You have a maid who has a sweetheart?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then the faithful maiden held her wedding with her sweetheart Roland, and grief came to an end and joy began.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
You see, he said, wiping his head, and breathing with difficulty, she hasn't taken much to any companions here; she hasn't taken kindly to any particular acquaintances and friends, not to mention sweethearts.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"Then we'll get married on triolets that will sell," he asserted stoutly, putting his arm around her and drawing a very unresponsive sweetheart toward him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It was an age of eccentricity, but he had carried his peculiarities to a length which surprised even the out-and-outers by marrying the sweetheart of a famous highwayman when the gallows had come between her and her lover.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Either way, the situation seems to involve money as the main topic or in parallel to a discussion and meditation about your steady sweetheart, one of your children, or a pregnancy.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
You infer that she may have gone out to tell her sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At this the girl and her sweetheart Roland resumed their natural shapes again, and they walked on the whole night until daybreak.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
She never had a sweetheart.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
