| Library / English Dictionary |
HEARTS
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades
Synonyms:
Black Maria; hearts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("hearts" is a kind of...):
long whist; short whist; whist (a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six)
Context examples:
The researchers confirmed their findings in human tissue samples, collected from hearts involved in transplants.
(Heart Disease Severity May Depend on Nitric Oxide Levels, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
We stood with bitter hearts staring at this unexpected obstacle.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The two played together, and loved each other with all their hearts, and the old cook went out hunting like a nobleman.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I wish nature had made such hearts as yours more common, but I have lived three-and-twenty years in the world, and have seen none like it.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Their hearts loathed them, and in the fashion of our country their lips said what the heart felt.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The two friends, with hearts now more united than ever, were inseparable for the day; and in schemes of sisterly happiness the hours flew along.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
'When two sympathetic hearts meet in the marriage state, matrimony may be called a happy life.'
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
You people with hearts, he said, have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
If they are really qualified for the task, will not their own hearts be the first to inform them of it?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
