Sugar
/ˈʃʊɡə(ɹ)/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:6 ptsWWF:8 pts5 letters
Definition of Sugar
noun
- Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
- A specific variety of sugar.
- Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
- A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
"He usually has his coffee white with one sugar."
- A term of endearment.
"I'll be with you in a moment, sugar."
verb
- 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.
- To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
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