To save this word, you’ll need to log in. Sight puns are the name of the game with these fun DIY valentine cards. Olivia Muenter, Woman’s Day, 10 Jan. Skip the restaurants this year and valentines presents for your boyfriend up a delicious and romantic dinner for two for you and your valentine at home instead.

Christopher Michel, Country Living, 6 Jan. Carrabba’s From February 10 through February 21, pull out all the stops by treating your valentine to a four-course dinner for two. Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 20 Jan. The scene where Bella buys a book about Quileute legends is a valentine for bookstore nerds. The photographer Firooz Zahedi is known for his celebrity portraits, but his new book is a valentine to interiors.

Macca takes a solo guitar stroll through his love-never-dies valentine, without the others’ breathy harmonies. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 80s at Westwood Terrace Elementary school in San Antonio, Texas. More than 34 years have passed since Christopher received that valentine from Jennifer Delgado. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word ‘valentine. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Subscribe to America’s largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

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Learn a new word every day. What is Valentine’s Day and how did it start? Valentine’s Day, or St Valentine’s Day, is celebrated every year on 14 February. It’s the day when people show their affection for another person or people by sending cards, flowers or chocolates with messages of love. The day gets its name from a famous saint, but there are several stories of who he was. The popular belief about St Valentine is that he was a priest from Rome in the third century AD.

Vote: Would YOU get a Valentine’s Day card for your pet? This is the oldest known Valentine’s Day message in English. Emperor Claudius II had banned marriage because he thought married men were bad soldiers. Valentine felt this was unfair, so he broke the rules and arranged marriages in secret. When Claudius found out, Valentine was thrown in jail and sentenced to death. There, he fell in love with the jailer’s daughter and when he was taken to be killed on 14 February he sent her a love letter signed “from your Valentine”. The first Valentine’s Day was in the year 496!

Having a particular Valentine’s Day is a very old tradition, thought to have originated from a Roman festival. The Romans had a festival called Lupercalia in the middle of February – officially the start of their springtime. It’s thought that as part of the celebrations, boys drew names of girls from a box. They’d be boyfriend and girlfriend during the festival and sometimes they’d get married.