Sacred Heart
Americannoun
noun
-
the heart of Jesus Christ, a symbol of His love and sacrifice
-
a representation of this, usually bleeding, as an aid to devotion
Etymology
Origin of Sacred Heart
First recorded in 1755–65
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
A few days later, Rettig was settling into a furnished room at the Sacred Heart Residence in the Chelsea neighborhood as a nun showed her around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
After six weeks at Sacred Heart, she moved off the waitlist at St. Mary’s Residence on the Upper East Side, where she lived for nearly a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
But Bruni easily could have been talking about Sacred Heart Hospital, whose staff vacillates between bridging the compassion gap between medical professionals and patients and managing our expectations.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026
That comedy, set in the fictional Sacred Heart Hospital, will reprise the bromance between Zach Braff and Donald Faison’s characters, which the pair recreated recently in T-Mobile commercials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
It was no longer a small alarm bell that was ringing in my head—they were big bells now, like the ones we heard from Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, not far from the zoo.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
