✅ Sweetheart and honey can both be terms of endearment, and can both refer to a romantic partner (My sweetheart and I are going to go ring shopping tomorrow; Next time I’m going to bring my honey).

✅ Sweetheart is also more generally a nice and friendly person (Be a sweetheart, and close the door for me).

✅ Both honey and sweetheart might also be used towards strangers and can sound patronizing in this context, especially when used by a man towards a woman.

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✅ A friend is a person, generally not related to you, that you feel connected to by a sense of affection (I went to dinner with my friend).

✅ A crony is a friend or pal, especially one of a group (She’s hanging out with a crony from school).

✅ Friend is a more positive word, whereas crony can have negative connotations.

✅ Crony can refer to an accomplice, and can also suggest someone whom a person in power has promoted to a certain position because of their friendship, rather than because of their qualifications (The mayor and his cronies were arrested yesterday).

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✅ The a is important in a few because few means a very small number, almost none, but a few means a small but still significant number (There’s a few cookies left).

✅ Several means more than two, but less than many (She visited several times).

✅ Several can refer to more or the same number as a few, but can have a more positive connotation (We were thrilled that several people attended the show; It was late, and only a few people attended the show).

There are several more synonyms for you to take a look at!