Candies, chocolates, or foods with lots of sugar that taste sweet, or British term for desserts in general.
From Old English 'swete' meaning having a sugary taste, with Germanic roots related to 'sweet'. The plural '-s' indicates multiple candies.
In British English, 'sweets' means candy, but in American English it usually means desserts—the same word has drifted into different meanings across the Atlantic, showing how languages that split apart evolve separately like biological species.
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