sweetheart
[noun]
Synonyms: lover, beloved, boyfriend or girlfriend, darling, dear, love

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Related Words: cutie pie, deary, pigsney, pet, puggy, doll baby, lovey-dovey, tootsie, paramour, dreamboat

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English Thesaurus: boyfriend, partner, fiancé, lover, ex, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

sweet‧heart /ˈswiːthɑːt $ -hɑːrt/ noun

1. spoken a way of speaking to someone you love Synonym : darling:
Come here, sweetheart.

2. spoken an informal way of speaking to a woman you do not know, which some women find offensive

3. sweetheart deal American English an agreement that is unfair because it gives an advantage to people who know each other well or to people who have a lot of influence:
Members of the council had arranged a sweetheart deal with CTS.

4. [countable] old-fashioned the person that you love:
They were childhood sweethearts.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

boyfriend a boy or man that you have a romantic relationship with, especially for a fairly long time:
Josh was my first boyfriend.
partner the person you are married to, or the person you are living with and having a sexual relationship with:
Sweden allows gay partners to receive many of the same benefits that married couples get.
Partners are also welcome.
fiancé the man whom a woman is going to marry:
Her fiancé was killed in the war.
lover someone who you have a sexual relationship with, without being married to them:
A few nights later, they became lovers.
ex informal a woman’s former husband or boyfriend:
Her ex has caused a lot of trouble for her.
old flame informal someone who was your boyfriend in the past:
In a box in the closet, I found love letters from one of her old flames.
man informal a woman’s husband or boyfriend:
She’ll always stand by her man.
sweetheart old-fashioned the person that you love:
They were childhood sweethearts.
beau old-fashioned a woman’s boyfriend or lover - a very old-fashioned use:
Does she have a beau?
toy boy informal humorous a young man who is having a sexual relationship with an older woman:
A woman with a toy boy gets a lot more disapproving looks than a man with a younger woman.
sugar daddy informal an older man who gives a younger woman presents and money in return for their company and often for sex:
I can imagine her cashing checks from some mysterious sugar daddy.
be going out with somebody if you are going out with a boy or man, you have him as your boyfriend:
She’s been going out with Jack for a couple of months.

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