Dictionary Definition
sweetheart adj : privileged treatment of a
favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically); "another
sweetheart deal based on political influence"
Noun
2 any well-liked individual; "he's a
sweetheart"
3 a very attractive or seductive looking woman
[syn: smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From sweet + heart.Pronunciation
Noun
- A person who is always very kind.
- She is such a sweetheart, she never complains about my being late.
- A person very much liked or loved by someone else.
- John married his highschool sweetheart in 1981.
Translations
a person who is always very kind
- Finnish: kultainen
a person very much liked or loved by someone
else
- Arabic: sc=Arab
- Finnish: kullanmuru
- Irish: cumann
Extensive Definition
Sweetheart is a term of
endearment that could be applied to a person's significant
other. The term is also used to refer to the following:
- Sweetheart (song), recorded by Rainy Davis and re-recorded by Mariah Carey and Jermaine Dupri
- Sweetheart (company)
- Sweetheart (dance), a cha-cha-cha dance figure
- Sweetheart Abbey in Scotland
- Talinum fruticosum
- ''Sweetheart (Crocodile)
- Mary Pickford was known as "America's Sweetheart"
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ace,
admirer, angel, babe, baby, baby-doll, beau, beaut, beloved, betrothed, boyfriend, buttercup, captive, catch, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, conquest, coquette, corker, court, crackerjack, daisy, dandy, darb, darling, date, dear, deary, dilly, doll, dream, dreamboat, duck, duckling, fiancee, flame, flirt, friend, heartthrob, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child,
humdinger, inamorata, inamorato, intended, killer-diller,
knockout, ladylove, lamb, lambkin, lollapaloosa, love, lover, lulu, make up to, paramour, peach, pet, petkins, pip, pippin, precious, precious heart,
pursue, snookums, spark, steady, sue, sugar, sweet, sweet patootie, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, the nuts, truelove, turtledove, vamp, vampire, whiz, woo