sugar

noun
sho͝ogʹər

A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative.

Other meanings

Any specific variety of sugar.
Any of various small, water-soluble carbohydrates such as are used by organisms for energy and various other purposes.

Synonyms

refined sugar

A kind of

sweetener

Kinds of sugar

lump sugar
loaf sugar
cane sugar
beet sugar
corn sugar
brown sugar
rock sugar

Example sentences

“Is sugar good for you?”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0
“White cake glaze is made by mixing powdered sugar and boiling water.”
Tatoeba · Isomorph · CC0

Word history

From Middle English "sugren".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “sugar” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.