HEARTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hearts mean? 

• HEARTS (noun)
  The noun HEARTS has 1 sense:

1. a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades

  Familiarity information: HEARTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEARTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Black Maria; hearts

Hypernyms ("hearts" is a kind of...):

long whist; short whist; whist (a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six)

 Context examples 

I will melt the stony hearts of your enemies by my tears and prayers.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was a lively scene, for soon the spirit of the social season took possession of everyone, and Christmas merriment made all faces shine, hearts happy, and heels light.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

For a few minutes our sorrowful hearts beat together, whilst the friends around us turned away their eyes that ran tears silently.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It is rare in healthy hearts.

(Endocarditis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

“Stand to it, my hearts of gold,” said the old bowman as he passed from knot to knot.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scientists have been trying to use stem cells to repair damaged hearts for a number of years.

(New stem cell combination could help to repair damaged hearts, University of Cambridge)

Most heart attacks happen when a blood clot suddenly cuts off the hearts' blood supply, causing permanent heart damage.

(Coronary Artery Disease, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

This type of tachycardia occurs in patients with apparently normal hearts.

(Adenosine-Sensitive Ventricular Tachycardia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

The gentle cheerfulness of Agnes went to all their hearts.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When the team produced a mouse strain missing cardiac MR, the animals’ hearts functioned normally.

(Healthy hearts need two proteins working together, National Institutes of Health)