A prepared dish or delicacy; now, a preparation of fruit, spices, sugar, or the like, used as a relish or dainty; a preserve, sweetmeat, comfit.

collective plural (and †singular) †Sweet food, as sugared cakes or pastry, confectionary (obsolete); preserved or candied fruits, sugared nuts…

A sweet or dainty dish; confectionery. Cf. junket, n. 2b.

A fancy item of food; a dainty, a confection. Obsolete.

A sweetmeat, a dainty dish; collective sweetmeats, dessert.

A sweet or dainty dish. Cf. junkery, n. 2 junket, n. 2b.

A sweet food or drink.

dialect. (See quots.)

A light, dainty article of furniture, dress, or food; any curious or pleasing trifle more for ornament than use; a trinket, gimcrack, kickshaw.

Things made or sold by a confectioner; a collective term for sweetmeats and confections.

A confection.

Chiefly North American. Any confectionery; sweets and chocolates. Also occasionally: a sweet or chocolate.

A fanciful dish or confection, = knick-knack, n. 2.

In South Asia and the Caribbean: (as a mass noun) sweetmeats collectively, confectionery, as barfi, jalebi, etc.; (as a count noun, usually in plural…

In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries: a sweet thing to eat, a sweet.

sweetmeats, sweets, confectionery; also attributive and in other combinations; now frequently in plural; †also euphemistic, gin (obsolete).

With plural agreement. Small baked confections, patties. Also singular and attributive.

English regional (north east.) A sweet; a piece of confectionery, esp. one made to be appealing or affordable to young children. Chiefly in plural.