sugar


Definition: Meaning of, sugar in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈʃʊɡə /

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sugar sugars
  1. [uncountable] a sweet white or brown substance that is obtained from plants and used to make food and drinks sweet
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  2. [countable] British English the amount of sugar that a small spoon can hold
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  3. [countable] technical one of several sweet substances formed in plants
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  4. spoken used to address someone you like very much
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
sugar sugared sugared
Present Participle Third Person Singular
sugaring sugars
[transitive]
  1. to add sugar or cover something with sugar [=  sweeten]
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sugar used in phrases

  • Robinson, Sugar Ray
    1. (1921-89) a very successful US BOXER who was world CHAMPION in the 1940s and 1950s, first as a WELTERWEIGHT (= BOXER weighing between 63.5 and 66.5 kilos), and then as a MIDDLEWEIGHT (= BOXER weighing between 70 and 72.5 kilos)
  • Sugar Bowl, the
    1. an important college football game held every year in New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Sugar Ray Robinson (noun)
    1. 1921-1989 united States prizefighter who won the world middleweight championship five times and the world welterweight championship once
  • barley sugar (noun)
    1. a hard sweet made of boiled sugar
  • barley-sugar (noun)
    1. a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar
  • beet sugar (noun)
    1. sugar made from sugar beets
    2. sugar from sugar beets used as sweetening agent
  • blood sugar (noun)
    1. glucose in the bloodstream
  • brain sugar (noun)
    1. a simple sugar found in lactose
  • brown sugar (noun)
    1. a type of sugar that is brown in colour and contains MOLASSES
  • cane sugar (noun)
    1. sucrose obtained from sugar cane
    2. sugar from sugarcane used as sweetening agent
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