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Definition: Sweetmeat |
SweetmeatNoun1. A sweetened delicacy (as a preserve or pastry). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sweetmeat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sweetness | Sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose; maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai, sorghum, taffy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sweetmeat |
| English words defined with "sweetmeat": Entremets ♦ Incrust ♦ Succade, Sucket. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sweetmeat": Dariolet, Dariolette ♦ Logget. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Sweetmeat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sweetmeat" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "sweetmeat": sweetmeat dish. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sweetmeat | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sweetmeat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sheqerkë (candy, caramel, Goody, sugarplum, sweet, sweetie, sweety, taffy, toffee, toffy). (various references) | |
Arabic | حلوى (candy, confection, confetti, dessert, fudge, goody, sweet, taffy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бонбон (bonbon, candy, comfit, confection, peach, plum, sweet, sweety). (various references) | |
Czech | cukroví (confection, confectionery, confiture, cookies, sweets), bonbón (candy, Goody, nicy, sweet, sweet-meat). (various references) | |
Danish | konfektskaal (sweetmeat box), bonbonniere (sweetmeat box), bolsjedaase (sweetmeat box). (various references) | |
Dutch | bonbonnière (sweetmeat box). (various references) | |
French | sucrerie, friandise (sweet), confiserie (sweetshop). (various references) | |
German | Zuckerwerk, Bonbon (bonbon, bon-bon, candy, Goody, lozenger, sweet, sweetie). (various references) | |
Greek | καραμέλα (candy, jujube, sweet, toffee), κουφέτο (candy, sugarplum), ζαχαρωτό (bonbon, candy, comfit, sugarplum). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ממתק (candy, sweet), מתיק" (candy, relish, sweet), מ'"ן (confection), סוכרי" (cachou, candy, sweet, toffee). (various references) | |
Hungarian | cukorka (candy, comfit, goodies, lollipop, sucks, sugar-plum, sweet, sweetie, sweets). (various references) | |
Italian | caramella (candy, caramel, gum, lozenger, sweet). (various references) | |
Manx | milljan (chocolate drop, sweet, tablet, tabloid), bee millish (sweet). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eetmeatsway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fruta cristalizada, docerias, bombom (bonbon, bon-bon, chocolate, comfit, goody, sugarplum, sweetie, sweety). (various references) | |
Romanian | bomboanã (comfit, confectionery, drop, Goody, suck, sweet, sweety). (various references) | |
Russian | конфета (bon-bon, cachou, candy, candy bar, comfit, goody goody, piece of candy, sweet). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slatkiš (confection, dainty, dessert, goody, sweet). (various references) | |
Spanish | dulce (candy, delicacy, dove-like, dulcet, fresh, gentle, melting, mild, soft, soothing, sweet, tender, tidbit, trifle), confite (confection, sugarplum). (various references) | |
Swedish | karamell (candy, Goody, sweet), godsak. (various references) | |
Turkish | tatlı (afters, agreeable, amiable, beautiful, blancmange, delightful, dessert, dulcet, fruity, honeyed, honied, luscious, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, pleasant, saccharine, sapid, silken, silky, smooth, soft, suave, subtile, subtle, sugary, sweet, sweetie, sweeties, toothsome), pasta (cake, confectionery, pastry), şekerleme (boiled sweet, bonbon, butterscotch, candy, catnap, confection, confectionery, doze, fondant, forty winks, fourty winks, goodies, kip, kiss, lay down, lie down, nap, snooze, sugar candy, sugarplum, sweetie, sweeties, sweets, sweety, taffy, toffee, toffy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | цукерка (bon-bon, candy, nicy, sweet, sweetie, sweety). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mứt (confection, confectionery, sweet), kẹo (bon-bon, sweet), của ngọt. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sweetmeat": sweetmeats. (additional references) | |
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"Sweetmeat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sweetlea, sweetmate, sweetneat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-m-s-t-t-w" | |
-2 letters: metates. | |
-3 letters: estate, esteem, etwees, mattes, mestee, metate, settee, tamest, testae, testee, tweets. | |
-4 letters: etwee, mates, matte, matts, meats, meets, metes, satem, setae, state, steam, sweat, sweet, tames, taste, tates, tawse, teams, tease, teats, teems, testa, twaes, tweet, wames, waste, watts, weest, weets. | |
-5 letters: ates, awee, awes, ease, east, eats, emes, etas, ewes, maes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-m-s-t-t-w" | |
+1 letter: sweetmeats. | |
+4 letters: witenagemotes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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