sweetheart
Syllables: sweet·heart/ˈswitˌhɑɹt/UK/ˈswiːtˌhɑːt/
sweetheart noun: a person who is always very kind.
Noun
sweetheart (plural sweethearts)
- A person who is always very kind.
- She is such a sweetheart: she never complains about me being late.
- A person very much liked or loved by someone, especially when both partners are young.
- John married his high-school sweetheart in 1981.
- Why Lambe, why Lady, fie you ſluggabed, / Why Loue I ſay, Madam, ſweeteheart, why Bride: / What not a word, you take your penniworths now, / Sleepe for a weeke, […]c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Iuliet. […] (Second Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, […], published 1599, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]
- A term of endearment, especially for a lover or child.
- Synonyms:
- babe
- A female member of a college or university fraternity.
sweetheart meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
sweetheart in Hindi
- a person very much liked or loved by someone — see also darling, cutie
- प्रिय priya, प्रिया priyā, प्रियतम priytam, प्रियतमा priyatmā
sweetheart in Tamil
- இனியன், இனியவன், இனியள், இனியவள், இனியா, கண்ணாளன்
sweetheart in Urdu
- sweetheart
- نگار nigār, سوہن sohan
- sweetheart, love
- صنم sanam
sweetheart in Bengali
- sweetheart, dear
- মণি moni
- sweetheart
- হাবীব habib
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- sweetheart in Malayalam
- പ്രിയ, പ്രിയങ്കരി, ഇഷ്ടപ്പെന്നയാൾ, കാമുകൻ
- sweetheart in Kannada
- ಪ್ರೇಮಿ, ಪ್ರಿಯ, ಪ್ರಿಯೆ, ಇನಿಯ
- sweetheart in Gujarati
- સનમ sanam
- sweetheart in Assamese
- কলিজা koliza
- sweetheart in Nepali
- प्यारी
- sweetheart in Arabic
- حَبِيب ḥabīb, حَبِيبَة ḥabība
- sweetheart in Malay
- sayang
- sweetheart in Persian
- دلدار deldâr, دلارام delârâm, دلبر delbar, یار yâr
- sweetheart in Thai
- หวานใจ wǎan-jai
- sweetheart in Vietnamese
- người yêu
- sweetheart in Myanmar
- ရည်းစား rany:ca:, အချစ် a.hkyac, ချစ်သူ hkyacsu
Examples of sweetheart in a sentence
- My mom got married to her childhood sweetheart.
- Go out with you? Huh, I don't think so, sweetheart!
- I've had the blues ever since my sweetheart left.
Synonyms of sweetheart
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Forms of sweetheart
| plural | sweethearts |
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Origin of sweetheart
From Middle English swete heorte, swete hert (term of endearment); equivalent to sweet + heart.
Words formed from sweetheart
Phrases with sweetheart
Words that rhyme with sweetheart
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Questions about sweetheart
- What does sweetheart mean?
- Sweetheart means a person who is always very kind.
- What is sweetheart in Hindi?
- Sweetheart in Hindi is प्रिय (priya), प्रिया (priyā), प्रियतम (priytam). See Sweetheart meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sweetheart?
- Sweetheart is a noun.
- How do you pronounce sweetheart?
- Sweetheart is pronounced /ˈswiːtˌhɑːt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of sweetheart?
- The plural of sweetheart is sweethearts.
Words near sweetheart in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sweetheart (page history and authors); sweetheart (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); سوہن (Urdu) (page history and authors); মণি (Bengali) (page history and authors); sweetheart (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); sweetheart (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); સનમ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); sweetheart (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.
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