sweethearts

noun

plural of sweetheart
1
as in darlings
a person with whom one is in love I married my high-school sweetheart as soon as we both finished college

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2
as in beauties
something very good of its kind a charming waterfront cottage that's a real sweetheart

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Recent Examples of sweethearts Hannah Mullin and Sean McConnell are true childhood sweethearts. — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2026 For every couple who were childhood best friends or high school sweethearts, there’s another who didn’t cross paths until much later in life. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 1 Oct. 2026 The family soon moved to Kentucky, where Kingsolver’s parents, high-school sweethearts, had been born and raised, and settled in the small town of Carlisle, where another daughter was born. — Casey Cep, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 Lois and Billy were childhood sweethearts and had been in a relationship since the age of 16. — Stuart James, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 The couple were high school sweethearts who married in 2013 and had three children together, family members told KTIV. — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026 In reality, Bourdain and Nancy Putkoski were high-school sweethearts long before the events of the movie. — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 Dream To You — Viki/Viu Hyeri and Hwang In-yeop star in this ongoing rom-com where high school sweethearts reunite as a struggling journalist and accomplished film director in their thirties. — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 Michael Cincinati and Amanda Price were high school sweethearts. — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 24 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sweethearts
  1. darlings
  2. beauties
  3. sweeties
  4. dreams
  5. girlfriends
  6. lovers
  7. boyfriends
  8. dears
Noun
  • The Gators went from the darlings of college football to deservedly unranked in just a few weeks after an embarrassing blowout loss at home to South Carolina.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Drastic Measures, Wild Child and their owner, Sanders, have become national darlings in the cocktail world over the last several years.
    — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of darlings
Noun
  • Before that, everyone was taking pep pills or methadone or black beauties, speed.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2026
  • These regions are already incredibly cinematic, but finding undiscovered beauties to shoot in this land was a true moment of pride and triumph.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of beauties
Noun
  • But my little Outlander sweeties, this is not just any reverend, this is Reverend Wakefield.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of sweeties
Noun
  • In a matter of weeks, when the midterm results are tallied and the next campaign begins, Democrats with presidential dreams know the question will be coming.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026
  • In his dreams, Jose Fiscal Belli is still living an all-American life with his all-American family.
    — Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of dreams
Noun
  • Both players, arrested in the offseason on charges tied to domestic abuse involving their girlfriends, remain the subjects of ongoing league investigations.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • There was a coordinated social media effort by the NFL to allow some of the league’s star quarterbacks — namely Justin Herbert, Joe Burrow and Jaxson Dart — to have their popular girlfriends canoodling with them at preseason practices.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of girlfriends
Noun
  • This one’s for the chocolate lovers who appreciate a little mythology lesson, too.
    — Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Star-crossed lovers sing right past each other on the duet from Bryan’s new Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs EP.
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of lovers
Noun
  • And, if so, what will happen to all those chatbot boyfriends?
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026
  • People’s responses were also colored by everyone suddenly having lawyers and managers and agents, wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, friends.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of boyfriends
Noun
  • Whether these ads were meant to imply that clutching and shifting was too physical for women, too unladylike, or just too complex for the little dears is not clear.
    — Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of dears

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