1 (spoken) a way of addressing sb that you love:
What's the matter, darling?
2 a person who is very friendly and kind:
You are a darling, Hugo.
3 the ~ of sb/sth a person who is especially liked and very popular:
She is the darling of the newspapers and can do no wrong.
adjective [onlybeforenoun] (informal) much loved; very attractive, special, etc:
My darling daughter. * 'Darling Henry,' the letter began.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for darling is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is darling a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, darling is tagged as noun.
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