sweet
noun /swiːt/Definition
A2 [C] UK (US candy) a small piece of sweet food, made of sugar: She bought a packet of sweets to suck on the journey.Sweets › [C] US any food with a lot of sugar in itSweets › [C or U] UK sweet food eaten at the end of a meal: There was only one sweet on the menu - chocolate cake with cream.Meals and parts of meals
(Definition of sweet noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- almond paste noun
- barley sugar noun
- bitter chocolate noun
- bittersweet chocolate noun
- boiled sweet noun
- confectionery noun
- cotton candy noun
- dark chocolate noun
- dolly mixture noun
- Easter egg noun
- lolly noun (SWEET)
- marshmallow noun (SWEET)
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- milk chocolate noun
- mocha noun
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