heart

noun

1》 a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation.

2》 the central, innermost, or vital part of something.

3》 a conventional representation of a heart with two equal curves meeting at a point at the bottom and a cusp at the top.

4》 (hearts) one of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a red figure of such a shape.

    ↘a card of this suit.

5》 a person's feeling of or capacity for love or compassion.

    ↘mood or feeling: they had a change of heart.

    ↘courage or enthusiasm: you may lose heart as the work mounts up.

6》 the close compact head of a cabbage or lettuce.

7》 the condition of agricultural land as regards fertility.

Phrases

after one's own heart sharing one's tastes.

at heart in one's real nature, in contrast to how one may appear.

break someone's heart overwhelm someone with sadness.

by heart from memory.

close (or dear) to one's heart of deep interest and concern to one.

from the (or the bottom of one's) heart with sincere feeling.

have a heart show pity.

have a heart of gold have a generous or compassionate nature.

have one's heart in one's mouth be greatly alarmed or apprehensive.

have one's heart in the right place be sincere or well intentioned.

one's heart's desire something that one greatly wishes for.

one's heartstrings used in reference to one's deepest feelings of love or compassion.

in one's heart of hearts in one's innermost feelings.

take something to heart take criticism seriously and be affected by it.

wear one's heart on one's sleeve make one's feelings apparent.

Derivatives

-hearted adjective

Origin

OE heorte, of Gmc origin.