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[ US /ˈhɑɹt/ ]
[ UK /hˈɑːt/ ]
NOUN
  1. the locus of feelings and intuitions
    her story would melt your bosom
    in your heart you know it is true
  2. an area that is approximately central within some larger region
    they were in the eye of the storm
    they ran forward into the heart of the struggle
    it is in the center of town
  3. an inclination or tendency of a certain kind
    he had a change of heart
  4. a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it
    hearts were trumps
    he led the queen of hearts
  5. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
    the gist of the prosecutor's argument
    the nub of the story
    the heart and soul of the Republican Party
  6. a positive feeling of liking
    he had trouble expressing the affection he felt
    the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home
    the child won everyone's heart
  7. a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines
    he drew a heart and called it a valentine
  8. a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal)
    a five-pound beef heart will serve six
  9. the courage to carry on
    he kept fighting on pure spunk
    you haven't got the heart for baseball
  10. the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body
    he stood still, his heart thumping wildly

How To Use heart In A Sentence

  • A heart will not be hurt for pursuing a dream, when you truly want something, all the universe conspires to help you complete the.
  • So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: ‘Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken. Book XXII
  • The baby was born with a heart problem and only survived for a few hours.
  • Some lucky local with an open fire had determined the evening warranted a little extra cheer, more than the central heating could provide, and had lit a small blaze on his hearth.
  • Epsom showed a great deal of heart considering their lowly league position but there are days when courage counts for naught and this was one of them.
  • Hale and hearty, though aged, strong-featured, with the tough and leathery skin produced by long years of sunbeat and weatherbeat, his was the unmistakable sea face and eyes; and at once there came to me a bit of Kipling's A Winner of the Victoria Cross
  • I've given you the password to my heart in all its anagrammatic permutations; but you seem to insist this is nothing but a start; so herewith, at last comes the story of my first puppy— Spill
  • As he rose in society, his romantic entanglements damaged his career and he returned to his former sweetheart in Ireland. Times, Sunday Times
  • They men weren't bored, as they'd expected, and were usually the heartiest laughers.
  • For the wholehearted follower of Francis (`I am your breviary ! RIDDLE ME THIS
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