Usually means: Pleasing, delightful taste; often sugary.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word sweet:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Sweet, sweet: Merriam-Webster
  3. sweet, the sweet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sweet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sweet: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Sweet, sweet: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sweet, sweet: Wordnik
  8. sweet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sweet, sweet: Wiktionary
  10. sweet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sweet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sweet: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sweet: Dictionary.com
  14. sweet (adj.), sweet (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sweet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sweet (Chara album), Sweet (Ken Mellons album), Sweet (band), Sweet (company), Sweet (disambiguation), Sweet (film), Sweet, The Sweet (album), The Sweet (band), The Sweet, The sweet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sweet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sweet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sweet: Rhymezone
  20. sweet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sweet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. sweet: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sweet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Sweet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. sweet: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Beer Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  6. sweet, sweet: Cook's Thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sweet: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweet: Netlingo
  2. sweet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sweet: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sweet: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. SWEET: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. sweet: Idioms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sweet: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. the sweet: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beer & Brewing Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Sweet: Coffee Glossary
  6. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See sweeter as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Tasting of sugars.
adjective:  (wine) Retaining a portion of sugar.
adjective:  Not of a salty taste.
adjective:  Of a pleasant smell.
adjective:  Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
adjective:  Of a pleasant sound.
adjective:  Of a pleasing disposition.
adjective:  Of a helpful disposition.
adjective:  (mineralogy) Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
adjective:  (informal) Very pleasing; agreeable.
adjective:  (Australia, slang) Doing well; in a good or happy position.
adjective:  (informal, followed by on) Romantically fixated; enamored with; fond of.
adjective:  Fresh; not salt or brackish.
adjective:  (of soil, UK, dated) Alkaline.
adjective:  Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
adjective:  An intensifier.
adverb:  In a pleasant manner.
noun:  (uncountable) The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
noun:  (countable, especially UK) A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
noun:  (countable, especially UK) A food eaten for dessert.
noun:  Synonym of sweetheart, a term of affection.
noun:  (obsolete) That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume.
noun:  (obsolete) Sweetness, delight; something pleasant to the mind or senses.
verb:  (archaic or poetic) To sweeten.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A female given name.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Gem County, Idaho, United States.

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