sweetheart

noun
/ˈswiːtˌhɑːt/UK/ˈswitˌhɑɹt/

Etymology

From Middle English swete heorte, swete hert (term of endearment); equivalent to sweet + heart.

Definitions

  1. A person who is always very kind.

    • She is such a sweetheart: she never complains about me being late.
  2. 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, […]
  3. A term of endearment, especially for a lover or child.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. A female member of a college or university fraternity.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sweetheart. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sweetheart. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at sweetheart

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA