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Heart

noun

1.

The locus of feelings and intuitions. Synonym: bosom. "Her story would melt your bosom"

2.

The hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body. Synonyms: pump, ticker.

3.

The courage to carry on. Synonyms: mettle, nerve, spunk. "You haven't got the heart for baseball"

4.

An area that is approximately central within some larger region. Synonyms: center, centre, eye, middle. "They ran forward into the heart of the struggle" , "They were in the eye of the storm"

5.

The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience. Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum. "The heart and soul of the Republican Party" , "The nub of the story"

6.

An inclination or tendency of a certain kind. Synonym: spirit.

7.

A plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines.

8.

A firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal).

9.

A positive feeling of liking. Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness. "The child won everyone's heart" , "The warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home"

10.

A playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it. "Hearts were trumps"

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"Heart" Quotes from Famous Books

... your not KNOWING makes it all the more hopeless and killing. It shows me that we MUST part; that you would go on, breaking my heart, and grinding me into the dust as long as we lived." She sobs. "It shows me that you never understood me, and you never will. I know you're good and kind and all that, but that only makes your not understanding ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... not an agreeable encounter, and from the bottom of his heart Bobby wished him anywhere but where he was. He foresaw that he could not easily ...

— Now or Never - The Adventures of Bobby Bright • Oliver Optic

... had a soft and foolish heart towards the sex; and it is not to be wondered at that so tempting a morsel soon found favor in his eyes, more especially after he had visited her in her paternal mansion. Old Baltus Van Tassel was a perfect picture of a thriving, contented, liberal-hearted farmer. He seldom, it is true, ...

— The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • Washington Irving

... the while these tyrants, These tyrants would not convert, But innocents young That lay sucking, They thrust to the heart. ...

— A Righte Merrie Christmasse - The Story of Christ-Tide • John Ashton

... Trewinion," he said, for I had told him my true name, "we have both been away ten years, and when we get to our respective birthplaces we shall find things much changed. And—well, my heart is sad, ...

— Roger Trewinion • Joseph Hocking

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