a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades
"They gathered around the card table to play a game of hearts, carefully discarding their cards whenever they drew a heart or the queen of spades."
plural of heart
"She shuffled the deck and dealt out the hearts to everyone at the table."
One of the four suits of playing cards, in red, marked with the symbol ♥.
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heart
"Hearts beat faster when the music swelled to a crescendo."
plural of Heart
"The surgeon carefully sutured the donor hearts before implanting them into the patients waiting in the operating room."