darling

1. 1.

   dearly loved

   Synonymsbeloveddear

   Similarloved

Other forms of darling

plural

darlings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about darling

What does darling mean?

darling means "a special loved one". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in darling?

darling has 2 syllables: dar-ling. The stress falls on "dar". In IPA it is /ˈdɑɹlɪŋ/.

What is another word for darling?

Close synonyms include favorite, favourite, pet, dearie, deary. 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 darling a common word?

darling is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.