/sweet"meet'/ , n.
1. a sweet delicacy, prepared with sugar, honey, or the like, as preserves, candy, or, formerly, cakes or pastry.
2. Usually, sweetmeats . any sweet delicacy of the confectionery or candy kind, as candied fruit, sugar-covered nuts, sugarplums, bonbons, or balls or sticks of candy.
[ bef. 1150; OE swetmete (not recorded in ME); see SWEET, MEAT ]