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Definition: Heartbreak |
HeartbreakNoun1. Intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "heartbreak" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
Synonyms: HeartbreakSynonyms: brokenheartedness (n), grief (n), heartache (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | At last, your family can be protected from the heartbreak of gorilla invasion! (The Muppet Show; writing credit: Joseph A. Bailey; Jack Burns) This town's had enough heartbreak. Too much. (The Majestic; writing credit: Michael Sloane) | |
Lyrics | At Heartbreak Hotel ("Heartbreak Hotel"; performing artist: Elvis Presley) I don't want another heartbreak ("This Kiss"; performing artist: Faith Hill) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Heartbreak Kid (1972) Heartbreak (1931) The Heartbreak Kid (1993) Hollywood Heartbreak (1990) Heartbreak Hotel (1988) | |
Song Titles | Heartbreak Hotel (performing artist: Stan Freberg) Heartbreak Hotel (performing artist: Whitney Houston featuring Faith Evans & Kelly Price) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Heartbreak.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Heartbreak" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.55% of the time. "Heartbreak" is used about 110 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 84.55% | 93 | 34,067 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.64% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.91% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.91% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 110 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
heartbreak holly | 223 |
heartbreak quote | 166 |
heartbreak hotel | 145 |
hamtaro ham ham heartbreak | 131 |
heartbreak | 131 |
cheat ham ham hamtaro heartbreak | 104 |
heartbreak poem | 84 |
ham ham heartbreak | 54 |
heartbreak high | 46 |
heartbreak ridge | 46 |
bringin heartbreak | 38 |
cheat ham ham heartbreak | 37 |
bringing heartbreak | 34 |
heartbreak song | 32 |
heartbreak hotel lyrics | 27 |
heartbreak holly pregnant | 25 |
heartbreak kid michaels shawn | 18 |
heartbreak kid | 18 |
cheat code ham ham hamtaro heartbreak | 17 |
heartbreak holly pic | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "heartbreak"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غصة, حسرة (repentance, sigh), حرقة في المعدة (heartburn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | силна мъка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | žal (bereavement, heartache, pain, pathos, regret, sadness, sorrow, woe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | غم زیاد, اندوه بسیار, دل شکستگی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | crève-c"ur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Herzeleid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκασίλα (disappointment), σπαραγμόσ καρδιάσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | crepacuore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ハート"ル法 (barrier-free, computer hardware, disabled or senior-friendly, emotionally uplifting, feel-good, hard, hard court, hard drink, hard sell, hard training, hardboard, hard-boiled, hard-copy, hard-core, hard-core porno, hard-cover, hard-disk, hard-link, hardtop, heart-warming, hurdle, hurdling, nickname of a Building Access law, warm-hearted), 断腸 , 傷心 (grief). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ハートブレーク , しょうし" (anxiety, burning oneself, cowardly, grief, heart failure, humble position, impatience, promotion, rising in rank, self-immolation, timid), "ちょう (leader of a delegation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 비탄 (grief, heartache). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | brishey cree. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eartbreakhay movimento (action, activity, agitation, beat, deflection, drift, drive, hustle, jog, motion, move, movement, run, traffic, travel, way). (various references) большое горе (heart-break). (various references) teška tuga. (various references) angustia (agony, angst, anguish, anxiety, depression, difficulty, distress, fear, fright, heartache, narrowness, pang, throes, torment, trouble). (various references) sorg (care, concern, distress, grief, heartache, mourning, pain, sadness, sorrow). (various references) keder (damp, dole, dolefulness, dolor, dolour, dreariness, gloominess, grief, low spirits, plaintiveness, ruefulness, sadness, shadow, sorrow, unhappiness, woe), kâlp kırıklığı, gönül yarası (heartache, heartfelt pain), acı (ache, acidulous, acrid, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, distress, gnawing, grief, grievous, harsh, hot, hurt, incisive, lamentable, misery, nippy, pain, painful, pang, peppery, poignant, pungent, sad, sardonic, scathing, severe, shrill, sorrow, sorrowful, splitting, sting, suffering, tragic, trenchant, vitriolic, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "heartbreak": heartbreaker, heartbreakers, heartbreaking, heartbreakingly, heartbreaks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "heartbreak" (pronounced hÄ"rtbrā'k) |
| 5 | -t b r ā' k | outbreak. |
| 4 | -b r ā' k | daybreak. |
| 3 | -r ā' k | Mandrake, muckrake. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-h-k-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: breather. | |
-3 letters: breaker, breathe, hektare, hetaera, rebater, retaker. | |
-4 letters: abater, aerate, aether, barker, barret, barter, bather, beaker, bearer, beater, berake, berate, bertha, betake, bhakta, breath, errata, hearer, heater, hereat, karate, krater, rather, rebate, rehear, reheat, retake, retear, takahe, tearer, terrae. | |
-5 letters: abate, areae, arete, arhat, baker, barer, barre, bathe, beret, berth, brake, break, earth, eater, ether, hater, heart, kabar, karat, kebar, rabat, rakee, raker, rater, rathe, reata, rebar, rehab, taber, taker, tarre, terra, thebe, there, three. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-e-h-k-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: halterbreak, heartbreaks. | |
+2 letters: halterbreaks, heartbreaker. | |
+3 letters: heartbreakers, heartbreaking. | |
+4 letters: halterbreaking. | |
+5 letters: heartbreakingly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 72 74 62 72 65 61 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .- .-. - -... .-. . .- -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a r t b r e a k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 0072 0074 0062 0072 0065 0061 006B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42716784866884716777 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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