sweetheart

1. 1.

   privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically)

   “another sweetheart deal based on political influence”

   Similarprivileged

Other forms of sweetheart

plural

sweethearts·

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 sweetheart

What does sweetheart mean?

sweetheart means "a person loved by another person". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sweetheart?

sweetheart has 2 syllables: swee-theart. The stress falls on "swee". In IPA it is /ˈswitˌhɑɹt/.

What is another word for sweetheart?

Close synonyms include sweetie, steady, truelove, smasher, stunner. 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 sweetheart a common word?

sweetheart 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.

What rhymes with sweetheart?

4 words rhyme with sweetheart. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.