noun Download 🔗Share Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors. Examples : "The children received lots of candies for Halloween. " food substance item Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A piece of confectionery of this kind. Examples : "My sister bought a bag of colorful candies for the class party. " food substance entertainment Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine. Examples : "Example Sentence: "The police raided the apartment building, suspecting they were selling candies there." " substance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup. Examples : "My grandmother candies orange peels every year for the holidays. " food process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To have sugar crystals form in or on. Examples : "Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time." food substance chemistry Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass. Examples : "The honey candies around the edges of the baking sheet as it cools. " food chemistry substance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally. Examples : "A merchant in Madurai calculated the price of cotton based on the number of candies he expected to harvest this season. " mass amount unit Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading