Val·en·tine n.
1. A sweetheart chosen on St. Valentine's Day.
2. A letter containing professions of love, or a missive of a sentimental, comic, or burlesque character, sent on St. Valentine's Day.
St. Valentine's Day, a day sacred to St. Valentine; the 14th of February. It was a very old notion, alluded to by Shakespeare, that on this day birds begin to mate. Hence, perhaps, arose the custom of sending love tokens at that time.
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St Valentine's Day
n : a day for the exchange of tokens of affection [syn: Valentine
Day, Valentine's Day, Saint Valentine's Day, February
14]