bonbon

«bonbon» in Mova's school dictionary: A small sweet (candy), often with a soft or chocolate centre — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a bonbon, bonbons)

meaning for a pupil

1) A small sweet (candy), often with a soft or chocolate centre. tree →

2) (Australia, NZ) A Christmas cracker. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and shops bonbons are little treats in a box. The word is French («bon» = good, said twice). In Australia and New Zealand a «bonbon» is the paper cracker pulled at Christmas dinner. Phrases: «a box of bonbons», «pull a bonbon».

examples

• Granny gave us a box of chocolate bonbons. tree →
• The bonbons were wrapped in shiny paper. tree →
• We pulled the bonbons at Christmas lunch in Melbourne and got paper hats. tree →
• In the story the witch's house was decorated with bonbons. tree →
• Don't eat all the bonbons before dinner! tree →

note

Countable. Can be spelled «bon-bon». From French; the British «bonbons» (like toffee bonbons) are chewy sugar-coated sweets.

In the corpora

• After pas, des becomes de: J'ai des bonbons, but Je n'ai pas de bonbons.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bonbon» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.