by heart

1. 1.

   by committing to memory

   “she knew the poem by heart”

   Synonymsby memory

Questions about by heart

What does by heart mean?

by heart means "by committing to memory".

What is another word for by heart?

Close synonyms include by memory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is by heart a common word?

by heart is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.