sugar
20 ENTRIES FOUND:
- sugar (noun)
- sugar (verb)
- sugar–coated (adjective)
- sugar–free (adjective)
- sugar beet (noun)
- sugar cube (noun)
- sugar daddy (noun)
- sugar maple (noun)
- sugar pill (noun)
- sugar snap pea (noun)
- barley sugar (noun)
- blood sugar (noun)
- brown sugar (noun)
- cane sugar (noun)
- confectioners' sugar (noun)
- demerara sugar (noun)
- icing sugar (noun)
- maple sugar (noun)
- powdered sugar (noun)
- pill (noun)
plural
sugars
plural
sugars
Britannica Dictionary definition of SUGAR
1
a
[noncount]
:
a sweet substance usually in the form of white or brown crystals or white powder that comes from plants and is used to make foods sweeter
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see also brown sugar, cane sugar, confectioners' sugar, maple sugar, powdered sugar
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Would you pass the sugar, please?
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Do you take sugar in your coffee?
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a lump/cube/packet of sugar
b
[count]
:
the amount of sugar in one spoonful, lump, packet, etc.
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Coffee with two sugars and milk, please.
2
[count]
technical
:
any one of various substances that are found in plants and that your body uses or stores for energy
— usually plural
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Everyone's body metabolizes sugars differently.
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Simple sugars are easier to digest than complex sugars.
3
[noncount]
informal
:
the amount of sugar present in a person's blood at a particular time
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Her sugar (level) is very high.
— called also
blood sugar
4
chiefly US, informal
— used to address someone you like or love
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“Hey, sugar [=honey], how are you doing?”
2
sugar
/ˈʃʊgɚ/
verb
sugars;
sugared;
sugaring
2
sugar
/ˈʃʊgɚ/
verb
sugars;
sugared;
sugaring
Britannica Dictionary definition of SUGAR
1
[+ object]
:
to put sugar on or in (something)
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The clean fruit is then dried and sugared.
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She sugared her coffee.
2
[no object]
US
:
to make maple syrup or maple sugar by boiling sap from maple trees
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They've been sugaring since they were children.
sugar the pill
— sugared
adjective-
heavily sugared coffee/tea [=coffee/tea with a lot of sugar added to it]
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sugared almonds
