Candy Definition

kăndē

candied, candies, candying

noun

candies

A sweet food, usually in small pieces or bars, made mainly from sugar or syrup, with flavoring, fruit, chocolate, nuts, etc. added.

Webster's New World

A piece of such food.

Webster's New World

Crystallized sugar made by boiling and evaporating cane sugar, syrup, etc.

Webster's New World

An illicit drug, especially one, such as cocaine, that has a sugary appearance or a drug in pill form, such as MDMA.

American Heritage Medicine

Someone or something variously regarded as being frivolously or superficially desirable, attractive, pleasing, exciting, etc.

Ear candy.

Webster's New World

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verb

candied

To become candied.

Webster's New World

To cook in or with sugar or syrup so as to glaze, encrust, or preserve.

Webster's New World

To crystallize into or like sugar.

Webster's New World

To sweeten; make pleasant.

Webster's New World

(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.

Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

Wiktionary

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pronoun

A pet form of the female given name Candace or Candice.

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Other Word Forms of Candy

Noun

Singular:

candy

Plural:

candies

Origin of Candy

Middle English candi crystallized cane sugar short for sugre-candi partial translation of Old French sucre candi ultimately from Arabic sukkar qandī sukkar sugar qandī consisting of sugar lumps (from qand lump of crystallized sugar) (from an Indic source akin to Pali kaṇḍa-) (from Sanskrit khaṇḍakaḥ) (from khaṇḍaḥ piece, fragment) (perhaps of Munda origin)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English candi crystallized cane sugar short for sugre-candi partial translation of Old French sucre candi ultimately from Arabic sukkar qandī sukkar sugar qandī consisting of sugar lumps (from qand lump of crystallized sugar) (from an Indic source akin to Pali kaṇḍa-) (from Sanskrit khaṇḍakaḥ) (from khaṇḍaḥ piece, fragment) (perhaps of Munda origin)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Old French sucre candi ("candy sugar"), from Arabic قندي (qandi, “candied”), from Arabic قند (qand, “hard candy made by boiling cane sugar”), from Persian کند (kand); ultimately from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “candied sugar”), root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu; compare Tamil கண்டு (kantu, “hard candy”).

From Wiktionary
From Marathi खंडी (khaṇḍī), from Sanskrit खण्डन (khaṇḍana), from root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”).

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