Meaning

3 senses
  1. A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy.

    a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate

  2. A small, spherical savory snack or canapé.

    The terrine was served with black pudding bonbons.

  3. (Australia, South Africa)A Christmas cracker.

Origin

Borrowed from French bonbon, reduplication of bon (“good”).

Borrowed from French bonbon, reduplication of bon (“good”).

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Forms

plural: bonbons
Singularbonbon
Pluralbonbons

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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