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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sweetheart
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
▪ My personal assistant was my high school sweetheart, Mrs Simpson, who was a complete nutcase.
▪ Then 23, she married her high school sweetheart, Dave.
▪ He married his high school sweetheart, though he grimaces at that term.
▪ Losers marry their high school sweethearts and slowly, very slowly, let their color drain from their bodies.
■ NOUN
childhood
▪ She had a very traditional ambition: to marry her childhood sweetheart.
▪ That was it; she stormed out, left Paris immediately, returned to Blackpool and married her childhood sweetheart.
▪ I've got my childhood sweetheart at last.
school
▪ My personal assistant was my high school sweetheart, Mrs Simpson, who was a complete nutcase.
▪ Then 23, she married her high school sweetheart, Dave.
▪ He married his high school sweetheart, though he grimaces at that term.
▪ Losers marry their high school sweethearts and slowly, very slowly, let their color drain from their bodies.
■ VERB
marry
▪ Her eldest brother thought of nothing but the day when he'd have the farm and be able to marry his sweetheart.
▪ Then 23, she married her high school sweetheart, Dave.
▪ It all stated when Jamie Spence's regular Tour caddie decided that the time had come to marry his sweetheart.
▪ He married his high school sweetheart, though he grimaces at that term.
▪ She had a very traditional ambition: to marry her childhood sweetheart.
▪ Losers marry their high school sweethearts and slowly, very slowly, let their color drain from their bodies.
▪ That was it; she stormed out, left Paris immediately, returned to Blackpool and married her childhood sweetheart.
▪ In 1937 he married his college sweetheart.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Sweetheart, I've got good news for you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If he had simply been using her why, in that split-second of warning, had he called her sweetheart?
▪ Johnny and Carmen are sweethearts, but Carmen loves Zander, because he looks so good in uniform.
▪ That led to a breakup with his sweetheart, who could not understand what he candidly admitted was a thirst for glory.
▪ That was it; she stormed out, left Paris immediately, returned to Blackpool and married her childhood sweetheart.
▪ Then 23, she married her high school sweetheart, Dave.
▪ They then crawled round the stone three times on hands and knees, hoping to see their future sweethearts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sweetheart

Sweetheart \Sweet"heart`\, n. A lover of mistress.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sweetheart

late 13c. as a form of address, 1570s as a synonym for "loved one;" from sweet (adj.) + heart (n.). As an adjective, with reference to labor contracts, it is attested from 1959.

Wiktionary
sweetheart

n. 1 A person who is always very kind. 2 A person very much liked or loved by someone, especially when both partners are young. 3 (cx US English) A female member of a college or university fraternity.

WordNet
sweetheart
  1. adj. privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically); "another sweetheart deal based on political influence"

  2. n. a person loved by another person [syn: sweetie, steady, truelove]

  3. any well-liked individual; "he's a sweetheart"

  4. a very attractive or seductive looking woman [syn: smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish]

Wikipedia
Sweetheart (Rainy Davis song)

"Sweetheart" is a song written by Rainy Davis and Pete Warner and originally recorded by Davis, which appeared on her eponymous debut album, Sweetheart. The song reached number 24 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in 1986. It was later re-recorded by Jermaine Dupri and Mariah Carey.

Sweetheart (Bee Gees song)

"Sweetheart" is a song released by the Bee Gees, released as the B-side of " I.O.I.O." in March 1970. and released on the album Cucumber Castle in April 1970.

Sweetheart

Sweetheart may refer to:

  • The term of endearment applied to a person's significant other
  • Childhood sweetheart
  • "Sweetheart" (Franke and the Knockouts song), a 1981 U.S. Top 10 hit
  • "Sweetheart" (Bee Gees song), covered by Engelbert Humperdinck
  • "Sweetheart" (Rainy Davis song), covered by Mariah Carey and Jermaine Dupri
  • Sweetheart Cup Company
  • Sweetheart Abbey in Scotland
  • Sweetheart City, Wisconsin, United States
  • Sweetheart, also known as Toutes peines confondues, a 1992 film
  • Sweetheart (2015 film), a 2015 Bangladeshi film
  • Talinum fruticosum, an herbaceous perennial plant
  • Sweetheart (crocodile) (died 1979), famous Australian crocodile
  • Sweethearts (candy), a popular Valentine's Day heart shaped candy
  • Sweetheart neckline
  • Sweetheart, a Finnish noise rock band of the 1990s founded by Janne Westerlund
  • Kim Tae-Hyung "V"
Sweetheart (crocodile)

Sweetheart was the name given to a 5.1 metre saltwater crocodile responsible for a series of attacks on boats in Australia between 1974 and 1979. Sweetheart attacked outboard motors, dinghies, and fishing boats. In July 1979, Sweetheart was finally caught alive by a team from the Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission, but drowned while being transported when he became tangled with a log. The crocodile's mounted body is now on permanent display at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.

The story of Sweetheart has been taken with considerable poetic licence by Greg McLean, director of the film Wolf Creek, and made into a film titled Rogue.

Sweetheart (2016 film)

Sweetheart is a 2016 Bangladeshi romantic drama film written by S. Reza and directed by Wazed Ali. The film stars Riaz Uddin Ahamed Siddique, Bappy Chowdhury, Mim Bidya Sinha Saha with Shampa Reza and Parveen Sultana Diti in supporting roles.

Riaz plays Richard, the only heir of an established business dynasty who is in love with Prilina, a childhood friend, portrayed by Mim. Before going abroad for higher education, Richard gets engaged to Prilina. While Richard is away, Prilina gets close to Jishan, played by Bappy. Two becomes closer as they spend time together, Prilina realizes her feelings for Jishan. Meanwhile, Richard returns from abroad. Divided by religion, and nonacceptance from society, the lives of three individuals ends in tragedy.

Sweetheart first look was officially launched on May 17, 2015 by Tiger Media Limited and second teaser was revealed a month later. The Official Trailer of the film was revealed on January 30, 2016. The film is produced by A.S Raj under the banner of Digital Movies. The film soundtrack album was launched on February 8, 2016 at Star Cineplex and received tremendous response from audiences since then. The film is released in 80 screens on 12 February 2016.

Usage examples of "sweetheart".

While my sweetheart was thus choosing one trifle after another my ill-luck brought about an incident which placed me in a fearful situation four years afterwards.

My sweetheart was above the ordinary height, her hair was a fine golden colour, and her regular features, despite the brilliance of her eyes, expressed candour and modesty.

Molini, a monk, was my confessor, and he expressed a desire to know the girl who was then my sweetheart.

Graves, Moorman, Strickler, and Webb have all been on visits to their sweethearts, and have left without them.

Gorsuch and 23 of her cronies were forced to resign following a congressional investigation of sweetheart deals with polluters, including Coors.

Thomas, my Pops, and Sweetheart, my grandmother, whose real name had been Rose.

I was innocent and protected by the umbrella of Pops and Sweetheart, and Aunt Queen, who was ever like a fairy godmother, dipping down to Earth only now and then with her stacked heels and invisible wings.

And Pops, late in life when he and Sweetheart had despaired of having a child, begat Patsy.

Patsy thought that if she was a mother she would be an adult, and Pops and Sweetheart would give her freedom and money.

Sweetheart, and even Pops coming in, drying the rain off himself with a towel and asking what was wrong.

Or, feeling sexually rebuffed by his sweetheart and repressing his pain out of a sense of humiliation, a youth may account to himself for his depression by the thought that no one understands him.

This missive told her that her husband had had for two years past, a sweetheart, a young widow named Madame Rosset, with whom he spent all his evenings.

I felt angry with Annette, and seizing her threw her on the bed, and then and there gave the two sweethearts such an interesting spectacle that they left their own play to watch us.

Looking, then, at matters with a less unsuspicious eye than heretofore, he could not help observing that Arthur Wardlaw never put into the office letter-box a single letter for his sweetheart.

Susan graduated from Agarita Springs High, was a quiet little music major at SMU, married her high school sweetheart, spoke with a Texas twang, and had never been out of the state.