Definition of "heart" []

• Anatomy The chambered muscular organ in vertebrates that pumps blood received from the veins into the arteries, thereby maintaining the flow of blood through the entire circulatory system. (noun)
• Anatomy A similarly functioning structure in invertebrates. (noun)
• The area that is the approximate location of the heart in the body; the breast. (noun)
• The vital center and source of one's being, emotions, and sensibilities. (noun)
• The repository of one's deepest and sincerest feelings and beliefs: an appeal from the heart; a subject dear to her heart. (noun)

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• "Oh and the other day, we were sat in R. S [I have to sit right next to her * rolls eyes*] and she took this pink heart shaped piece of paper out of her organiser, it had I * heart* A. G written on it."
• "If you will put health into my flesh, joy into my heart, and life into my whole frame, be of _one heart_ and of _one soul_."
• "She had a generous heart, capable of great enterprises, and I do not doubt that she has left to you, her daughters, her _mind_ as well as her _heart_."