candy
//ˈkæn.di//
Forms
- Plural
- candies
- present (v1)
- candy
- past (v2)
- candied
- past participle (v3)
- candied
- present participle
- candying
- 3rd person singular
- candies
Definitions
1.Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
- Someday I'll buy a cotton candy machine.
- I've been trying not to eat so much candy.
2.Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
- They came down to buy sugar, flour, saltfish or candy from Nana, to collect letters and exchange gossip.
3.A piece of confectionery of this kind.
- Unwholesome pink and yellow candies were sold from trays.
4.crack cocaine.(slang)
- Someday I'll buy a cotton candy machine.
- I've been trying not to eat so much candy.
1.To cook in or coat with sugar syrup.
2.To form into congelations or crystals, especially of sugar or syrup.
- Fruits preserved in sugar candy over time.
3.To become candy; to solidify into a candylike form or mass.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3370
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From Middle English sugre candy
From Old French sucre candi (literally “candied sugar”)
From Arabic سُكَّر قَنْدِي (sukkar qandī)
From Arabic قَنْد (qand, “rock candy”)