heart
verb/hɑːt/
/hɑːrt/
(symbol ♥)
(informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they heart | /hɑːt/ /hɑːrt/ |
| he / she / it hearts | /hɑːts/ /hɑːrts/ |
| past simple hearted | /ˈhɑːtɪd/ /ˈhɑːrtɪd/ |
| past participle hearted | /ˈhɑːtɪd/ /ˈhɑːrtɪd/ |
| -ing form hearting | /ˈhɑːtɪŋ/ /ˈhɑːrtɪŋ/ |
- heart somebody/something to like somebody/something very much; to love somebody/something
- She wore an ‘I heart Dad’ T-shirt.
- I ♥New York.
- They heart each other but it’s complicated.
Word OriginOld English heorte, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hart and German Herz, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin cor, cord- and Greek kēr, kardia.
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