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val⋅en⋅tine
[val-uh
n-tahyn] 
–noun
| 1. | a card or message, usually amatory or sentimental but sometimes satirical or comical, or a token or gift sent by one person to another on Valentine Day, sometimes anonymously. |
| 2. | a sweetheart chosen or greeted on this day. |
| 3. | a written or other artistic work, message, token, etc., expressing affection for something or someone: His photographic essay is a valentine to Paris. |
Val⋅en⋅tine
[val-uhn-tahyn] –noun
| 1. | Saint, died a.d. c270, Christian martyr at Rome. |
| 2. | Also, Valentinus. pope a.d. 827. |
| 3. | a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “strong.” |
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| val·en·tine (vāl'ən-tīn') n.
[After Saint Valentine.] Word History: Lovers and the greeting card industry may have Geoffrey Chaucer to thank for the holiday that warms the coldest month. Although reference books abound with mentions of Roman festivals from which Valentine's Day may derive, Jack B. Oruch has shown that no evidence supports these connections and that Chaucer was probably the first to link the saint's day with the custom of choosing sweethearts. No such link has been found before the writings of Chaucer and several literary contemporaries who also mention it, but after them the association becomes widespread. It seems likely that Chaucer, the most imaginative of the group, invented it. The fullest and perhaps earliest description of the Valentine's Day tradition occurs in Chaucer's Parlement of Foules, composed around 1380, which takes place "on Seynt Valentynes day,/Whan every foul cometh there to chese [choose] his make [mate]." |
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