Usually means: Beloved, endearing term of affection.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word darling:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Darling, darling: Merriam-Webster
  2. darling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. darling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. darling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Darling, darling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Darling, darling: Wordnik
  7. darling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Darling, darling: Wiktionary
  9. darling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. darling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. darling: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Darling, darling: Dictionary.com
  13. darling: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. darling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Darling (Blackadder), Darling (British band), Darling (EP), Darling (Eyes Set to Kill song), Darling (Hindi film), Darling (Taeyang song), Darling (Yui Horie album), Darling (fragrance), Darling (magazine), Darling (software), Darling (surname), Darling, The Darling (Chekhov), The Darling (novel), The Darling (short story): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Darling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. darling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Darling: Rhymezone
  19. darling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. darling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Darling: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. darling: FreeDictionary.org
  23. darling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Darling: The Word Detective
  25. darling: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. darling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Darling: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Darling: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Darling: Easton Bible

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Darling: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Darling: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See darlingly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who is dear to one.
noun:  A kind, sweet, or lovable person; sweetheart.
noun:  An affectionate term of address.
noun:  A favourite.
noun:  (obsolete) A royal favourite, the intimate companion of a king or other royal personage, often delegated significant political power.
noun:  The favourite child in a family.
noun:  (by extension) A person or thing, now often a woman, who is very popular with a given group of people.
adjective:  Dear; cherished.
adjective:  Charming, very cute.
noun:  An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname from darling.
noun:  A major river of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia, named for Governor Ralph Darling.
noun:  The Australian aboriginal language Baagandji, spoken along this river in New South Wales.
noun:  A small town in Western Cape province, South Africa.
noun:  A census-designated place in Quitman County, Mississippi, United States.

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