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  1. adjective Having the taste of sugar or a substance containing or resembling sugar, as honey or saccharin.
  2. adjective Containing or derived from sugar.
  3. adjective Retaining some natural sugar; not dry: a sweet wine.
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  • "If you weren't looking so pleased with yourself, son, I'd chuck it away, but I suppose I'm setting you enough bad examples as it is, so we'll let Forensic tell us what flavor the sweet was and how much a pound they are." —  R. D. Wingfield - Frost at Christmas
  • Mendelssohn's “Lieder” gave a lighter recreation, and many a happy evening did we spend, my mother and I, over the stately strains of the blind Titan, and the sweet melodies of the German wordless orator. —  Annie Besant
  • Seidenberg envisions $100 billion in incremental revenue in the next four to five years from what he calls the sweet spot: "wireless, wireless data, broadband and video." —  SmartMoney.com
  • The bitter and the sweet are always present, the two balance the overall experience of joy. —  Vail Daily - Top Stories
  • The readers at original "sweet" - free challenge where I attempted to go without ANYTHING sweet-tasting on my tongue for a period of 30 days just to see how I would do. —  Carbwire
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English swete, from Old English swēte; see swād- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English swete, suete, swcote, also swote, soot, soote, sote, from Anglo-Saxon swēte = Old Northumbrian swœte, swōte = Old Saxon swōti, suoti = OFries. swēt = Middle Dutch soet D. zoet = Middle Low German sote, sute, Low German söte, söt, = Old High German suozi, swuazi, Middle High German sueze, German süss = Icelandic sætr (sœtr) = Swedish söt = Danish söd = Gothic (Moesogothic) *swōtus, suts = Latin suāvis (for *suadvis) = Greek ἡδύς = Sanskrit svādu, sweet; from a root seen in Greek ἥδεσθαι, be pleased, ἡδονἠ, pleasure, ἁνδάνειν, please, Sanskrit √ svad, svād, be savory, make savory, take pleasure. From the L. adjective is the English suave, with its derivatives, also suade, dissuade, persuade, etc., suasion, suasive; from the Greek, hedonism, hedonist, etc.
  2. from Middle English sweten, from Anglo-Saxon swētan (= Old High German suozan), from swēte, sweet: see sweet, adjective
  3. from Middle English sweete; from sweet, adjective
 

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