[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/valentine.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / valentine

[← V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/V/)

# valentine

«valentine» in Mova's school dictionary: **a card or small gift sent on Valentine's Day to show love…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a valentine, valentines; Valentine as a name)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A valentine is a card or small gift sent on Valentine's Day to show love or liking, often without signing your name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valentine/#m1)

2) Your valentine is the person you send it to or love. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valentine/#m2)

3) Valentine is also a name, for example Saint Valentine, a Christian saint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valentine/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used around Valentine's Day: in schools children make cards; phrases «be my valentine», «a secret valentine», «Valentine's Day».

### examples

- I made a valentine with red hearts and glitter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valentine/#x1)
- Will you be my valentine? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valentine/#x2)
- Sam got a valentine but did not know who sent it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valentine/#x3)
- Our class made valentines for the people in the care home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valentine/#x4)
- Mum and Dad are each other's valentines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valentine/#x5)
- Saint Valentine is remembered by many churches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valentine/#x6)
- So Valentine took the right, and Oliver went straight on, and poor Jack took the left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valentine/#x7)

### note

Write «Valentine's Day» with a capital V and an apostrophe. The card is often written with a small v: a valentine. Sending one secretly is a custom, not a rule.

### In the corpora

- [The heart grows stronger with exercise like any muscle, and it looks nothing like the heart on a Valentine's card.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «valentine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/valentine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.