sweetheart:

1. A person who is loved; the object of one's love and affection .
Synonyms: apple-of-one's-eye ; beloved ; boyfriend; dear; dear-one ; darling ; dearest; favorite; flame ; girlfriend ; heart's-desire ; heartthrob ; honey ; inamorata ; inamorato ; ladylove ; light-of-love ; light-of-one's-life ; light-of-one's-eyes ; love of one's life ; loved-one ; lovee ; lover ; object-of-one's-affection ; object of all of one's affection ; one-and-only ; one's-everything ; one's-own ; one's onliest , one's weekness; onliest one; pet ; precious; pulse-accelerator ; pulse-upperer ; soft-spot ; steady (date); suitor; sweetheart; sweetie ; sweetie-pie ; sweets ; truelove (true love); turtledove; valentine ; wooer.

Quotes:

(1) Lou (Lou Costello) in One Night in the Tropics (1940): ' A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed .'

(2) Allan (Woody Allen) with a Humphrey Bogart accent in Play It again, Sam (1972): ' Sorry I had to slap you around, sweetheart, but you got hysterical when I said no more .'

2. A term of endearment for a loved-one . Synonym: darling .

3. A person who is well liked or loved; a dearly loved person; a likable or lovable person.

4. A very attractive or seductive looking woman .

5. Something dear, very agreable, excellent. ' A sweetheart of a ...'

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