Darling

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Often used as an affectionate term of address: a person who is very dear to one.

   “Pass the wine, would you, darling?”

2. isim A person who is kind, sweet, etc., and thus lovable; a pet, a sweetheart; also, an animal or thing which is cute and lovable.

   “The girl next door picks up all my shopping for me. She is such a darling.”

3. isim A favourite.

   “Politics were never more corrupt and brutal; and Trade, that pride and darling of our ocean, that educator of nations, that benefactor in spite of itself, ends in shameful defaulting, bubble, and bankruptcy, all over the world.”

4. isim The favourite child in a family.

   “Mary, the youngest daughter, was always her mother’s darling.”

5. isim A person (often a woman) or thing that is very popular with a certain group of people.

   “a media darling”

6. isim A royal favourite, the intimate companion of a monarch or other royal personage, often delegated significant political power.
7. sıfat Very dear; beloved, cherished, favourite.

   “She is my darling wife of twenty-two years.”

8. sıfat Very cute or lovable; adorable, charming, sweet.

   “Well, isn’t that a darling little outfit she has on?”

9. fiil To call (someone) "darling" (noun sense 1).

   “The frisky female, we have noticed, has one most unpleasant trick; it is that of darlinging and duckeying and otherwise spooneying her husband … in public. He is invariably, invariably set down as an ass, without its being in the least his fault.”

10. özel isim An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname from darling.

    “Richard and David Darling, founders of Codemasters, a multimillion-pound computer game company, dropped out of school aged 15 and 16 to write computer games […]”

11. özel isim A major river of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia, named for Governor Ralph Darling.
12. özel isim The Australian aboriginal language Baagandji, spoken along this river in New South Wales.
13. özel isim A small town in the Western Cape province, South Africa.
14. özel isim A census-designated place in Quitman County, Mississippi, United States.