TOP

Definition of sweet noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

sweet

noun
 
/swiːt/
 
/swiːt/
jump to other results

    food

  1. [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   sweet
     
    /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.
    see also boiled sweetTopics Fooda2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • chewy
    • jelly
    • sugary
    … of sweets
    • bag
    • box
    • packet
    verb + sweet
    • eat
    • suck
    sweet + noun
    • shop
    See full entry
  2. [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?
    Topics Foodb2, Cooking and eatingb2
  3. person

  4. [uncountable] (old-fashioned) a way of addressing somebody that you like or love
    • Don't you worry, my sweet.
  5. 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.
See sweet in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
trait
noun
 
 
From the Word list
Oxford 5000
B2
Oxford Learner's Dictionaries Word of the Day