valentine

«valentine» in Mova's school dictionary: a card or small gift sent on Valentine's Day to show love… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a valentine, valentines; Valentine as a name)

meaning for a pupil

1) A valentine is a card or small gift sent on Valentine's Day to show love or liking, often without signing your name. tree →

2) Your valentine is the person you send it to or love. tree →

3) Valentine is also a name, for example Saint Valentine, a Christian saint. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used around Valentine's Day: in schools children make cards; phrases «be my valentine», «a secret valentine», «Valentine's Day».

examples

• I made a valentine with red hearts and glitter. tree →
• Will you be my valentine? tree →
• Sam got a valentine but did not know who sent it. tree →
• Our class made valentines for the people in the care home. tree →
• Mum and Dad are each other's valentines. tree →
• Saint Valentine is remembered by many churches. tree →
• So Valentine took the right, and Oliver went straight on, and poor Jack took the left. tree →

note

Write «Valentine's Day» with a capital V and an apostrophe. The card is often written with a small v: a valentine. Sending one secretly is a custom, not a rule.

In the corpora

• The heart grows stronger with exercise like any muscle, and it looks nothing like the heart on a Valentine's card.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «valentine» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.