as in confection
a food having a high sugar content
16th-century Naples carried on a vast export trade in silks and sweetmeats
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Recent Examples of sweetmeat
Peer at the pendulous breasts on a Medici workshop ewer or those on a screeching siren centered on an 18th-century scalloped sweetmeat dish.
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
But street food vendors — with their pungent salads, oodles of noodles, and coconut sweetmeats — have lately become the target of some of the capital’s planners.
—BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2019
So off the two ran to Loxy’s den, where Loxy began to speed-read his handy-dandy cookbook about slicing and dicing sweetmeat and Tex Mex green beans and chugalugging them down with mai tais, Tia Marias, pale ale and near beer.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2019
In a tiny shop by the gate, the delicious sweetmeat has been made every day for the past 164 years with a recipe so secret the original handwritten copy is kept in the vault of a local bank.
—Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
But street food vendors — with their pungent salads, oodles of noodles, and coconut sweetmeats — have lately become the target of some of the capital’s planners.
—BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2019
So off the two ran to Loxy’s den, where Loxy began to speed-read his handy-dandy cookbook about slicing and dicing sweetmeat and Tex Mex green beans and chugalugging them down with mai tais, Tia Marias, pale ale and near beer.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2019
In a tiny shop by the gate, the delicious sweetmeat has been made every day for the past 164 years with a recipe so secret the original handwritten copy is kept in the vault of a local bank.
—Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sweetmeat
Noun
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Same—and luckily for us, the best gourmand perfumes last a lot longer than our favorite confections.—
Pia Velasco,
Allure,
10 Feb. 2026
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Available online, this generously sized Valentine’s Day gift basket is overflowing with caramel apples and confections, including chocolate and caramel pretzel rods, white chocolate mini pretzel twists, assorted caramels, and milk chocolate raspberry bark.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Our modern candy and roses-centric celebration of Valentine's Day has deep roots that date back to the ancient pagan fertility festival of Lupercalia.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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Real Arizonans know that Valentine's Day is so much more than an excuse for candy and cute notes.—
Becky Bartkowski,
AZCentral.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Sweetmeat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sweetmeat. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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