sweetheart
/ˈswitˌhɑɹt/ noun A2- A person who is always very kind. · She is such a sweetheart: she never complains about me being late.
- A person very much liked or loved by someone, especially when both partners are young. · John married his high-school sweetheart in 1981.
- A term of endearment, especially for a lover or child.
- A female member of a college or university fraternity.
Plural sweethearts
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“It would strike him that in disappearing he might throw all pursuit off his track, and at the same time have an ample and crushing revenge upon his old sweetheart, if he could give the impression that he had been murdered by her only child.
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