darling

IPA: dˈɑrɫɪŋ

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

Examples of "darling" in Sentences

And this darling, is why I feel so right in your company.
Palin, Palin, Palin .. now another WH non-darling is bashed.
Your media darling is going to crap on our country, just wait and see.
"Oh, darling, _darling_ Miss Humf'ay, we _will_ be good if you'll stay!"
Wow and the actually receive balanced reporting, not the McCain darling type reporting.
“Hello,” Ellen said warmly, biting off the word darling before it could escape her lips.
To kick off the week, how about this darling from a public library professional collection?
Well it looks like CNN has grown tired of Meghan "Air-head" McCain and its new darling is the worthless dead-beat dad from Alaska.
We can tell you that the Disney darling is maintaining her squeaky clean image – Demi Lovato is not a cutter and her rep explains the marks:
England, six months ago, did not I hear him croon, if not certainly sing, 'Charlie is my darling' ( 'my _darling_' with an adoring emphasis), and then he stood back, as it were, from the song, to look at it better, and said 'How must that notion of ideal wondrous perfection have impressed itself in this old Jacobite's "young