- [countable] (British English) a small piece of sweet food, usually made with sugar and/or chocolate and eaten between meals synonym candy
- a packet of sweets
- a sweet shop
Homophones suite | sweetsuite sweetsee also boiled sweetTopics Fooda2/swiːt//swiːt/- suite noun
- She booked a hotel suite overlooking Central Park.
- sweet adjective
- Add some honey to make it sweet.
- sweet noun
- Suck this sweet—it might soothe your throat.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- chewy
- jelly
- sugary
- …
- bag
- box
- packet
- …
- eat
- suck
- shop
- [countable, uncountable] (British English) a sweet dish eaten at the end of a meal synonym afters, dessert, pudding
- I haven't made a sweet today.
- Would you like some more sweet?
- [uncountable] (old-fashioned) a way of addressing somebody that you like or love
- Don't you worry, my sweet.
food
person
Word OriginOld English swēte, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zoet, German süss, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin suavis and Greek hēdus.
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