sweets

sweets

English

Noun

sweets

1. plural of sweet

sweets pl (plural only)

1. Confectionery, candy.
2. (slang) drugs, amphetamine
3. flowers, sweet-scented.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i], line 239:

     Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.
     She scatters flowers

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 259:

     ...she dropped the flowers which Evelyn had given her. Before she even perceived her loss, the King had picked them up, and was about to give them to her, when he perceived the note, and also observed that the seal was yet unbroken. "Mademoiselle has not had time to read a letter so surrounded by sweets—pray use no ceremony."

Derived terms

• boiled sweets

Descendants

• → Japanese: スイーツ

Translations

confectionery, candy

Arabic: حَلْوَيَات‎ (ar) f pl (ḥalwayāt) Armenian: քաղցրավենիք (hy) (kʿałcʿravenikʿ) Bashkir: кәнфит (känfit) Belarusian: прысмакі m pl (prysmaki) Catalan: caramels (ca), llaminadures (ca), dulces (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 糖果 (zh) (tángguǒ), 糖食 (zh) (tángshí), 甜食 (zh) (tiánshí) Dutch: snoep (nl), snoepgoed (nl) Finnish: makeinen (fi) French: confection (fr) f, bonbons (fr) m pl Galician: larpeirada (gl) f, lambonada (gl) f, lambada (gl) f, lambuxa f, canterlo m, meiloada f, ratada f, zugueira f, gotroñada f, golifada f, gaimola f, langoñada f, piperete m Georgian: ტკბილეული (ṭḳbileuli) German: Süßigkeiten (de) f pl, Bonbons (de) m pl, Schleckzeug n (Swiss-German) Greek: γλυκά (el) n pl (glyká) Hindi: कैंडी (kaiṇḍī) Hungarian: édesség (hu) Irish: milseáin m pl Italian: dolci (it) Japanese: お菓子 (ja) (おかし, okashi) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: شیرینی‎ (ku) (şîrînî) Latin: cuppēdia n pl, bellāria n pl Malay: gula-gula (ms) Mongolian: амттан (mn) (amttan) Norwegian: Bokmål: godteri n, snop n Nynorsk: godteri n, snop n Pashto: کینډی‎ Polish: słodycze (pl) pl Portuguese: doces (pt) m pl Romanian: dulciuri pl Russian: сла́дости (ru) f pl (sládosti), конфе́ты (ru) f pl (konféty), конди́терские изде́лия n pl (kondíterskije izdélija), сла́сти (ru) f pl (slásti) Scottish Gaelic: suiteas m Sotho: dipompong Spanish: caramelos (es), chucherías (es), dulces (es) Swedish: godis (sv) n Thai: ขนม (th) (kà-nǒm), ขนมหวาน (th) (kà-nǒm-wǎan), ของหวาน (th) (kɔ̌ɔng-wǎan) Uzbek: konfet (uz) Welsh: candi (cy) m West Frisian: snobberij c

Noun

sweets (plural sweets)

1. A term of endearment; sweetheart.

   I miss you, sweets.

Verb

sweets

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sweet

Anagrams

• sewest, weests