heart

❤️

Meaning

1. A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
2. One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character.
3. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.
4. Emotional strength that allows one to continue in difficult situations; courage; spirit; a will to compete.
5. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
6. A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
7. (obsolete) Memory.
8. A wight or being.
9. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥.
10. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
11. The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
12. The centre, essence, or core.

mind

emotion

spunk

inner part

innermost being

mental state

core 3

one’s heart of hearts

stoutheartedness

central part

earnest desire

spiritual center

beloved one

beloved person

spirit: mood

inner man

by extension

moral force

chaudron

seat of emotions

little mind

main idea

point of origin

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɑːt/

PIE word *ḱḗr From Middle English herte, from Old English heorte (“heart”), from Proto-West Germanic *hertā, from Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱérd (“heart”). Doublet of cardia; see also core. Most of the modern figurative senses (such as passion or compassion, spirit, inmost feelings, especially love, affection, and courage) were present in Old English. However, the meaning “center” dates from the early 14th century. The verb sense “to love” is from the 1977 I ❤ NY advertising campaign.