{
    "term": "sweet",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "containing, or tasting as if it contains, a lot of sugar",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a cup of hot sweet tea"
                },
                {
                    "text": "sweet food"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had a craving for something sweet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "roast duck with a sweet and sour sauce"
                },
                {
                    "text": "sweet sherry"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This wine is too sweet for me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I found the dessert a bit sweet for my taste."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Cooking and eating"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "smell", "taste"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "having a pleasant smell",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a sweet-smelling rose"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The air was sweet with incense."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The air smelled sweet and clean."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an overpowering, sickly sweet smell"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "fragrant",
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "smell", "taste"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "having a pleasant sound",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a sweet voice"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "pleasant and not containing any harmful substances",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the sweet air of a mountain village"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "making you feel happy and/or satisfied",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Goodnight. **Sweet dreams**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't tell you how sweet this victory is."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He played a sweet shot onto the final green *(= in golf)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an act of sweet revenge"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["awfully", "really", "terribly"],
                "preposition": ["to"],
                "phrases": ["dear sweet…", "short and sweet", "sweet and innocent"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "attractive",
            "labels": "(especially British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His sister's a sweet young thing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You look sweet in this photograph."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We stayed in a sweet little hotel on the seafront."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a rather sweet little cottage"
                },
                {
                    "text": "What a sweet little dog!"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["awfully", "really", "terribly"],
                "preposition": ["to"],
                "phrases": ["dear sweet…", "short and sweet", "sweet and innocent"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "having or showing a kind character",
            "sensetop": "it is sweet of somebody to do something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She gave him her sweetest smile."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's one of the sweetest people I know."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was sweet of them to offer to help.",
                    "contextForm": "it is sweet of somebody to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He’s not what you’d call sweet-tempered!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a sickeningly sweet smile"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was really sweet to me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She looked so sweet and innocent."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["awfully", "really", "terribly"],
                "preposition": ["to"],
                "phrases": ["dear sweet…", "short and sweet", "sweet and innocent"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "used to show that you approve of something",
            "labels": "(especially North American English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Free tickets? Sweet!"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["awfully", "really", "terribly"],
                "preposition": ["to"],
                "phrases": ["dear sweet…", "short and sweet", "sweet and innocent"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to like somebody very much in a romantic way",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned, informal)",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to like food that contains a lot of sugar",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say how pleasant your home is (especially when you really mean that it is not pleasant at all)",
            "labels": "(often ironic)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "how and when you want to, even though this might annoy other people",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He always does the work, but in his own sweet time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She just ignores all the criticism and continues in her own sweet way."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to say or do pleasant things in order to keep somebody in a good mood so that they will agree to do something for you",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You’d better keep her sweet if you want her to lend you the money."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "what is important is what people or things are, not what they are called",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "everything is all right",
            "labels": "(Australian English, New Zealand English, informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "pleasant but not lasting a long time",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We haven't much time so I'll keep it short and sweet."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "nothing at all. People say ‘sweet FA’ to avoid saying ‘fuck all’.",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "romantic words",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to whisper sweet nothings in somebody’s ear"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the pleasant feeling of being successful",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Success"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/swiːt/",
                "audio": "sw/sweet/sweet__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/swiːt/",
                "audio": "sw/sweet/sweet__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English swēte, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zoet, German süss, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin suavis and Greek hēdus."
}