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sweets
 
Noun sweet has 5 senses
  1. Sweet, Henry Sweet - English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)
    --1 is a kind of phonetician
  2. dessert, sweet, afters - a dish served as the last course of a meal
    --2 is a kind of course
    --2 has particulars:
     ambrosia; baked Alaska; blancmange; charlotte; compote, fruit compote; dumpling; flan; frozen dessert; junket; mousse; peach melba; whip; pudding; syllabub, sillabub; tiramisu; trifle; zabaglione, sabayon
  3. sweet, confection, confectionery - a food rich in sugar
    --3 is a kind of dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat
    --3 has particulars:
     confiture; sweetmeat; candy; hardbake; chewing gum, gum; candied apple, candy apple, taffy apple, caramel apple, toffee apple; center, centre; comfit; maraschino, maraschino cherry; nonpareil
  4. sweet, sweetness, sugariness - the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
    --4 is a kind of taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception
  5. sweetness, sweet - the property of containing sugar
    --5 is a kind of taste property
    --5 has particulars: saccharinity; sugariness
sweetleaf family sweetly sweetmeat sweetmeats sweetneats sweetness sweetness and light sweetpea sweets sweetsop sweetsop tree sweetwood bark sweety sweger sweldon swelf sweling

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