heart

Noun

• a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it
  • he led the queen of hearts
    
  • hearts were trumps
    

• a positive feeling of liking
  • he had trouble expressing the affection he felt
    
  • the child won everyone's heart
    
  • the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home
    

• a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal)
  • a five-pound beef heart will serve six
    

• 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
    

• an inclination or tendency of a certain kind
  • he had a change of heart
    

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
  • the gist of the prosecutor's argument
    
  • the heart and soul of the Republican Party
    
  • the nub of the story
    

• an area that is approximately central within some larger region
  • it is in the center of town
    
  • they ran forward into the heart of the struggle
    
  • they were in the eye of the storm
    

• the courage to carry on
  • he kept fighting on pure spunk
    
  • you haven't got the heart for baseball
    

• 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
    

• the locus of feelings and intuitions
  • in your heart you know it is true
    
  • her story would melt your bosom
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  affection , affectionateness , fondness , tenderness , warmness , warmheartedness , philia , spirit , kernel , substance , core , center , centre , essence , gist , heart and soul , inwardness , middle , eye , mettle , nerve , spunk , pump , ticker , bosom