English Explanatory Dictionary

sweetener

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Something added to food to sweeten its taste, especially an artificial substitute for sugar.
  2. Something given or added to a deal to sweeten another's attitude, especially a bribe or kickback.
  3. A shill bidder at an auction.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sweetener.wav

Word forms

sweetener sweeteners

Etymology

From sweeten + -er (agent suffix).

Synonyms

gift and Thesaurus:bribe douceur

Derived words

artificial sweetener

Translations

Afrikaans: versoeter Albanian: sheqer diabetik Arabic: مُحَلِّيّ Armenian: շաքարի փոխարինիչ Azerbaijani: dadlandırıcı Basque: gozagarri Belarusian: падсаладжа́льнік Belarusian: падсало́днік Bengali: উৎকোচ Bulgarian: подслади́тел Catalan: edulcorant Chinese Mandarin: 甜味劑 /甜味剂 Chinese Mandarin: 糖精 Czech: sladidlo Danish: sødestof Dutch: zoetstof Esperanto: dolĉigilo Estonian: magusaine Estonian: magustaja Finnish: makeutusaine French: édulcorant Galician: adozante German: Süßstoff Greek: γλυκαντικό Haitian Creole: edulkoran Hebrew: ממתיק Hindi: स्वीटनर Hungarian: édesítőszer Icelandic: sætuefni Indonesian: pemanis Irish: milseoir Italian: dolcificante Japanese: 甘味料 Korean: 감미료 Kyrgyz: таттуулук Latin: dulcedo Latvian: saldinātājs Lithuanian: saldiklis Macedonian: засладувач Malay: pemanis Maltese: ħlewwa Manx: ooreyder Mongolian: амт оруулагч
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