Synonyms: heart
Definition: a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it
Usage: he led the queen of hearts; hearts were trumps
Similar words: playing card
Definition: one of a pack of cards that are used to play card games
Definition: an inclination or tendency of a certain kind
Usage: he had a change of heart
Synonyms: heart, spunk, nerve, mettle
Definition: the courage to carry on
Usage: he kept fighting on pure spunk; you haven't got the heart for baseball
Similar words: courage, courageousness, braveness, bravery
Definition: a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear
Definition: the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body
Usage: he stood still, his heart thumping wildly
Similar words: internal organ, viscus
Definition: a main organ that is situated inside the body
Definition: the locus of feelings and intuitions
Usage: in your heart you know it is true; her story would melt your bosom
Similar words: intuition, hunch, suspicion
Definition: an impression that something might be the case
Usage: he had an intuition that something had gone wrong
Synonyms: gist, heart, heart and soul, nub, nitty-gritty, essence, core, centre, center, pith, meat, inwardness, kernel, marrow, substance, sum
Definition: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
Usage: the gist of the prosecutor's argument; the heart and soul of the Republican Party; the nub of the story
Similar words: mental object, content, cognitive content
Definition: the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
Synonyms: philia, tenderness, heart, fondness, affection, affectionateness, warmheartedness, warmness
Definition: a positive feeling of liking
Usage: 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
Similar words: feeling
Definition: the experiencing of affective and emotional states
Usage: she had a feeling of euphoria; he had terrible feelings of guilt; I disliked him and the feeling was mutual
Synonyms: heart
Definition: a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal)
Usage: a five-pound beef heart will serve six
Similar words: organs, variety meat
Definition: edible viscera of a butchered animal
Synonyms: eye, heart, centre, center, middle
Definition: an area that is approximately central within some larger region
Usage: it is in the center of town; they ran forward into the heart of the struggle; they were in the eye of the storm
Definition: a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
Usage: it was a mountainous area; Bible country
Synonyms: heart
Definition: a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines
Usage: he drew a heart and called it a valentine
Similar words: plane figure, two-dimensional figure
Definition: a two-dimensional shape