Definition of sweetheart
1 : darling
2 : one who is loved
3 : a generally likable person
4 : a remarkable one of its kind
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Examples of sweetheart in a Sentence
Be a sweetheart and help your grandmother.
She is such a little sweetheart.
Recent Examples of sweetheart from the Web
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The Holbrook, N.Y., resident was still hurting from the loss of her husband, Cesare, who was her high school sweetheart and to whom she was married for half a century.
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Ryan Gosling, unanimous sweetheart of the Internet, is an online phenomenon all on his own — but what if there were two of him?
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And as Donald Trump’s Hyatt rose, so too did the hidden hand of his attorney Roy Cohn, always there to help with the shady tax abatements, the zoning variances, the sweetheart deals, and the threats to those who might stand in the project’s way.
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Americans are outraged by the last-minute, closed-door, sweetheart deals that were made to gain the slimmest margin for passage of a bill that’s about their health care.
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The sweetheart of the Givenchy archive, however, was Audrey Hepburn.
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John and Diane grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs and were high school sweethearts.
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The 1967 case focused on 17-year-old Mildred Jeter, who was black, and her childhood sweetheart, 23-year-old Richard Loving, who was white.
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Hawkins worked three jobs to put herself through college, graduating from Louisiana State University in 1938 with a degree in teaching and a college sweetheart who would later become her husband of 70 years.
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First Known Use of sweetheart
14th century
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Definition of sweetheart
: of or relating to an agreement between an employer and a labor union official arranged privately for their benefit usually at the expense of the workers a sweetheart contract; broadly : arranged in private for the benefit of a few at the expense of many a sweetheart deal
First Known Use of sweetheart
1942
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SWEETHEART Defined for English Language Learners
sweetheart
playDefinition of sweetheart for English Language Learners
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: a person you love very much
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—used to address someone you love
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: a kind or helpful person : someone who is very nice
SWEETHEART Defined for Kids
sweetheart
playDefinition of sweetheart for Students
: a person whom someone loves
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