sweetmeat

noun

sweet·​meat ˈswēt-ˌmēt 

: a food rich in sugar: such as

a

: a candied or crystallized fruit

b

: candy, confection

Synonyms

• confection
• sweet

Examples of sweetmeat in a Sentence

16th-century Naples carried on a vast export trade in silks and sweetmeats

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

sweetmeat

noun

sweet·​meat -ˌmēt 

: a food (as a candied fruit or piece of candy) rich in sugar