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Definition of Heartthrob
1. Noun. An object of infatuation.
Definition of Heartthrob
1. Noun. A heartbeat ¹
2. Noun. The object of one’s desires or infatuation; a sweetheart ¹
3. Noun. A usually handsome celebrity or famous person ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heartthrob
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heartthrob
Literary usage of Heartthrob
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Excess, Success, and by Stephan Paternot, Andrew Essex (2001)
"... FOUND A NEW MARKETING MODEL WEB ENTREPRENEUR AS TEEN heartthrob Industry
Standard/cover . . . three months of interviews for a teen heartthrob story. ..."
2. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"I 've not much heartthrob left for my fellow beings. Shall I cut this wee bit
thing out too?" Yet right near this time, returning from a week's absence, ..."
3. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"... heartthrob, salute you! Toad- belly transforms to arrowhead at thought of you !
We trust that you are not fatigued with your condescension to certain of ..."
4. Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton (1909)
"... most expressive of its average experience, most sympathetic to its heartthrob.
The thought should prevent us from regarding it as merely the syllabub of ..."
5. The Life of Jesus the Christ by Henry Ward Beecher (1891)
"the value which I put upon a heartthrob, an enthusiasm, a sentiment, a ministration
of the soul, — not its market value, not its poetic value, ..."
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