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dulce

/dʌls/

dulce adjective: sweet. Also the alternative form of dulse.

Adjective

dulce (comparative more dulce, superlative most dulce)

  1. (archaic) Sweet.

Noun (1)

dulce (uncountable)

  1. Sweetness.

Noun (2)

dulce (plural dulces)

  1. (obsolete) Something sweet; a sweetmeat.
    • The guava […] is seldom eaten except when preserved with sirup or sugar. In this form it is one of the favorite dulces of the country.1871, Charles Washburn, The History of Paraguay

Verb

dulce (third-person singular simple present dulces, present participle dulcing, simple past and past participle dulced)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten or soothe.

Noun (3)

dulce (countable and uncountable, plural dulces)

  1. seaweed; kelp

Proper noun capitalized: Dulce

Dulce (plural Dulces)

  1. A female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Dulcie.

Also used as

dulce is also the alternative form of dulse.

Forms of dulce

Adjective
comparativemore dulce
superlativemost dulce
Noun
pluraldulces
Verb
third-person singular presentdulces
present participledulcing
past participledulced
pastdulced
Proper noun
pluralDulces
alternative formDulcé
alternative formDulcee
alternative formDulcée

Plural of dulce: dulces

Origin of dulce

Either a learned borrowing from Classical Latin dulcis or an alteration of earlier douce (from Middle English douce, from Old French douz, douce) after it. Doublet of dolce, douce, and doux.

Partly a learned borrowing from Classical Latin dulce, use as noun of neuter of dulcis, and partly from the adjective (etymology 1).

From Spanish dulce (“sweetmeat”), use as noun of the adjective.

Words formed from dulce

Phrases with dulce

Questions about dulce

What does dulce mean?
Dulce means sweet.
What part of speech is dulce?
Dulce can be an adjective, a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce dulce?
Dulce is pronounced /dʌls/.

Words near dulce in the dictionary

  1. Dulays
  2. Dulbu
  3. dulcacid
  4. dulcamara
  5. dulcamarin
  6. dulce
  7. dulce de leche
  8. Dulce Nombre de María
  9. dulced
  10. dulcely
  11. dulceness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dulce (page history and authors); Dulce (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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