sugar
A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative.
Noun 4 meanings
A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative.
Any specific variety of sugar.
Any of various small, water-soluble carbohydrates such as are used by organisms for energy and various other purposes.
A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
“He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.”
Verb 4 meanings
To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
“John heavily sugars his coffee.”
To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
“She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.”
In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off.
To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English sugre, borrowed from Old French çucre, borrowed from Old Italian zucchero, borrowed from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), borrowed from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar), borrowed from Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara), from Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel”).
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SUGAR at a glance
SUGAR has 5 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (S 1 + U 1 + G 2 + A 1 + R 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,079 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with sugar
All rhymes- VINEGAR11
- CIGAR8
- VULGAR10
- COUGAR9
- HANGAR10
- BEGGAR10
- AGAR5
- APGAR8
- BULGAR9
- SEGAR6
- SANGAR7
- LANGAR7
One letter away
- SEGAR6
- SUGAN6
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