Word.ws English Dictionary

heartmate

UK/ˈhɑːt.meɪt//ˈhɑɹt.meɪt/

heartmate noun: a sweetheart.

Noun

heartmate (plural heartmates)

  1. A sweetheart.
    • But the moon is a sorry one, sad the bird's tune, / For this spot is unknown to that Heartmate of mine.1914, Thomas Hardy, The Difference
    • An independent cartographer and an aspiring actor resist the fact that they are each others' heartmates.2012, Kristin Ramsdell, Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre, page 327

Forms of heartmate

pluralheartmates

Origin of heartmate

From heart + -mate.

Questions about heartmate

What does heartmate mean?
Heartmate means a sweetheart.
What part of speech is heartmate?
Heartmate is a noun.
How do you pronounce heartmate?
Heartmate is pronounced /ˈhɑːt.meɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of heartmate?
The plural of heartmate is heartmates.

Words near heartmate in the dictionary

  1. heartliness
  2. heartling
  3. heartlings
  4. heartly
  5. heartman
  6. heartmate
  7. heartmates
  8. heartmen
  9. heartnut
  10. heartnuts
  11. heartpea

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: heartmate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-heartmate.wav.

Cite this entry: “heartmate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/heartmate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.