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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Home Bakery, known for its creative confections displayed in its storefront window.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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With a variety of molds, tools, and colors, kids can dream up endless cake creations—from layered confections to bite-sized treats.—
Emily Glover,
Parents,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The first prototype of the squishy candy debuted in Germany in 1922.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
12 Oct. 2025
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But this time, the familiar faces on the lane have swapped out tinsel and snowmen for candy corn and jack-o-lanterns in Haul Out the Halloween.—
Rebecca Angel Baer,
Southern Living,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Sweetmeat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sweetmeat. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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