SWEETNESS AND LIGHT

Meaning of SWEETNESS AND LIGHT in English

good-natured benevolence or harmony. [taken from Jonathan Swift and used by Matthew Arnold in Culture and Anarchy (1869).]

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Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004

SWEETNESS AND LIGHT — noun Date: 1869 a harmonious combination of beauty and enlightenment viewed as a hallmark of culture, 2. amiable reasonableness of …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT — noun 1. : a harmonious combination of beauty and intelligence declared that the ideal of culture was sweetness and light …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT — 1. extreme or excessive pleasantness or amiability. 2. decorous charm combined with intelligence. [ 1695-1705 ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT — Date: 1869 1. : a harmonious combination of beauty and enlightenment viewed as a hallmark of culture 2. a. : …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT — Function: noun Date: 1869 1 : a harmonious combination of beauty and enlightenment viewed as a hallmark of culture 2 …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT — [sweetness and light] n (1704) 1: a harmonious combination of beauty and enlightenment viewed as a hallmark of culture 2. …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT — Synonyms and related words : bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, goo, hearts-and-flowers, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT — Function: noun Synonyms: AMENITY 1, agreeability, agreeableness, amiability, cordiality, enjoyableness, geniality, gratefulness, pleasance, pleasantness
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT — noun Synonyms: amenity 1, agreeability, agreeableness, amiability, cordiality, enjoyableness, geniality, gratefulness, pleasance, pleasantness
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT — часто (ироничное) полное благополучие; благоденствие, беспечальное житье; безмятежность - the end of the movie was all * в фильме все …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT — часто ирон. 1. полное благополучие; благоденствие, беспечальное житьё; безмятежность the end of the movie was all sweetness and light - …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT — часто ирон. 1. полное благополучие; благоденствие, беспечальное житьё; безмятежность the end of the movie was all ~ - в фильме …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT — часто ирон. 1. полное благополучие; благоденствие, беспечальное житьё; безмятежность the end of the movie was all sweetness and light - …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT — часто (ироничное) полное благополучие; благоденствие, беспечальное житье; безмятежность - the end of the movie was all * в фильме все …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
LIGHT — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a cigarette lighter (= something that produces a flame for lighting cigarettes ) ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SWEETNESS — noun see: sweet
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
LIGHT — I. ˈlīt, usu -īd.+V noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English liht, light, from Old English lēoht, līht; akin to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SWEETNESS — ˈswētnə̇s noun ( -es ) Etymology: Middle English swetnes, sweetnes, from Old English swētnes, from swēte sweet + -nes -ness …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SWEETNESS — (n.) The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to …
Английский словарь Webster
SWEETNESS — ( n. ) The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
LIGHT
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SWEETNESS — n. quality of being sweet
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
SWEETNESS — see sweet I
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
LIGHT — I. ˈlīt noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English lēoht; akin to Old High German lioht light, Latin luc-, lux …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SWEETNESS — noun the quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to …
Webster English vocab
LIGHT
Webster English vocab
SWEETNESS — ■ noun the quality of being sweet. Phrases ~ and light good-natured benevolence or harmony. [taken from Jonathan Swift and …
Concise Oxford English vocab
LIGHT — electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the human eye. In terms of wavelength, electromagnetic radiation occurs over an extremely …
Britannica English vocabulary
SWEETNESS — sweetness BrE AmE ˈswiːt nəs -nɪs
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SWEETNESS — / ˈswiːtnəs; NAmE / noun [ U ] 1. the quality of being pleasant : a smile of great sweetness …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LIGHT — / laɪt; NAmE / noun , adjective , verb , adverb ■ noun FROM SUN / LAMPS 1. [ U …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SWEETNESS — sweet ‧ ness /ˈswiːtnəs, ˈswiːtnɪs/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable] [ Word Family: noun : ↑ sweet , ↑ sweetener , …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
LIGHT — I. light 1 S1 W1 /laɪt/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: noun : ↑ light , ↑ lighter , …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SWEETNESS — n. the quality of being sweet; fragrance, melodiousness, etc. øsweetness and light a display of (esp. uncharacteristic) mildness and reason.
Английский основной разговорный словарь
LIGHT — adj., adv., & v. --adj. 1 of little weight; not heavy; easy to lift. 2 a relatively low in weight, …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
LIGHT — n., v., & adj. --n. 1 the natural agent (electromagnetic radiation of wavelength between about 390 and 740 mm) that …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SWEETNESS — n. the quality of being sweet; fragrance, melodiousness, etc. sweetness and light a display of (esp. uncharacteristic) mildness and reason.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
LIGHT — adj., adv., & v. adj. 1 of little weight; not heavy; easy to lift. 2 a relatively low in weight, …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
LIGHT — n., v., & adj. n. 1 the natural agent (electromagnetic radiation of wavelength between about 390 and 740 mm) that …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SWEETNESS — n. the quality of being sweet; fragrance, melodiousness, etc. Phrases and idioms: sweetness and light a display of (esp. uncharacteristic) …
Oxford English vocab
LIGHT — 1. n., v., & adj. --n. 1. the natural agent (electromagnetic radiation of wavelength between about 390 and 740 mm) …
Oxford English vocab
LIGHT — I. BRIGHTNESS OR ILLUMINATION /laɪt/ ( lights, lighting, lit, lighted, lighter, lightest) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SWEETNESS — 1. If you say that a relationship or situation is not all sweetness and light , you mean that it …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SWEETNESS — 1. If you say that a relationship or situation is not all ~ and light, you mean that it is …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
SWEETNESS — noun PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES be all smiles/innocence/sweetness etc ▪ And the sporty victim herself was all smiles, too. ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SWEETNESS — [noun] [U]the sweetness of honey(figurative) a sweetness of character(figurative) The two of them got into a big argument yesterday, but …
Cambridge English vocab
SWEETNESS — Guinea droppers, cheats, sharpers. To sweeten to decoy, or draw in. To be sweet upon; to coax, wheedle, court, or …
Slang English vocab
SWEETNESS — n. 1. Sweet. 2. Agreeableness, pleasantness. 3. Beauty, fairness, loveliness. 4. Amiableness, gentleness, mildness, suavity.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
SWEETNESS — noun
Oxford Collocations Dictionary Second Edition
SWEETNESS — noun 1 sweet smell/taste ADJECTIVE ▪ natural ▪ cloying ( esp. BrE ), sickly ▪ the sickly ~ of incense …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
LIGHT — INDEX: not dark 1. light from the sun, a fire, an electric light etc 2. to make a place light …
Longman Activator English vocab
SWEETNESS — сущ. свежесть, сладость Syn : coolness, freshness sweetness and light ≈ полное благополучие; благоденствие, беспечальное житье; безмятежность сладость, свежесть и …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
LIGHT
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SWEETNESS — Сладкий вкус
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
LIGHT — light.ogg _I 1. laıt n 1. 1> свет the light of the sun of the moon, of a candle - …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
LIGHT — 1) свет, видимое излучение; световое излучение 2) источник света || светить 3) лампа 4) фонарь 5) фара 6) осветитель; светильник …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
LIGHT — 1) свет, видимое излучение; световое излучение 2) источник света || светить 3) лампа 4) фонарь 5) фара 6) осветитель; светильник 7) освещение; подсветка || освещать 8) огонь 9) …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
LIGHT — 1) засвечивать 2) источник света 3) лампа 4) легкий 5) легковесный 6) маловязкий 7) огонь 8) освещать 9) освещение 10) поджигать 11) разъяснение 12) сведения 13) свет 14) светлоокрашенный 15) светлый 16) световой 17) свечение 18) слабый 19) …
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
SWEETNESS — свежесть; сладость sweetness and light - полное благополучие; благоденствие, беспечальное житье; безмятежность
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
LIGHT — _I 1. laıt n 1. 1> свет the light of the sun of the moon, of a candle - свет …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
SWEETNESS — сущ. свежесть, сладость Syn: coolness , freshness •• sweetness and light — полное благополучие; благоденствие, беспечальное житьё; безмятежность
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
LIGHT
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
SWEETNESS — сущ. свежесть, сладость Syn: coolness, freshness •• sweetness and light — полное благополучие; благоденствие, беспечальное житьё; безмятежность
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики

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