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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bonbon/#m1)

2) (Australia, NZ) A Christmas cracker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bonbon/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bonbon/#x1)
- The bonbons were wrapped in shiny paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bonbon/#x2)
- We pulled the bonbons at Christmas lunch in Melbourne and got paper hats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bonbon/#x3)
- In the story the witch's house was decorated with bonbons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bonbon/#x4)
- Don't eat all the bonbons before dinner! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bonbon/#x5)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/26-plurals-les-des-and-silent-s/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bonbon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bonbon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.