English > candy: 2 senses > noun 1, foodMeaning | A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts. |
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Synonym | confect |
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Narrower | Easter egg | An egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter |
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Life Saver | A candy shaped like a small lifesaver |
Turkish Delight | A jellied candy typically flavored with rose water |
bonbon | A candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate |
brandyball | A British candy flavored with brandy |
brittle, toffee, toffy | caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets |
butterscotch | A hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar |
candy bar | A candy shaped as a bar |
candy cane | A hard candy in the shape of a rod (usually with stripes) |
candy corn | A small yellow and white candy shaped to resemble a kernel of corn |
caramel | Firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk |
carob bar | A bar of candy made with carob powder |
cotton candy, spun sugar, candyfloss | A candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature |
dragee | sugar-coated nut or fruit piece |
dragee | silvery candy beads used for decorating cakes |
fondant | candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste |
fudge | Soft creamy candy |
gumdrop | A jellied candy coated with sugar crystals |
hard candy | candy that is brittle |
honey crisp | A crisp candy made with honey |
horehound | A candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant |
jelly bean, jelly egg | sugar-glazed jellied candy |
kiss, candy kiss | Any of several bite-sized candies |
licorice, liquorice | A black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant |
lollipop, sucker, all-day sucker | hard candy on a stick |
lozenge | A small aromatic or medicated candy |
marshmallow | spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar |
marzipan, marchpane | almond paste and egg whites |
mint, mint candy | A candy that is flavored with a mint oil |
nougat | nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste |
nougat bar | A bar of nougat candy often dipped in chocolate |
nut bar | paste of nuts and sugar on a pastry base cut into bars |
patty | round flat candy |
peanut bar | bar of peanuts in taffy |
popcorn ball | popcorn combined with a thick sugar or molasses or caramel syrup and formed into balls |
praline | cookie-sized candy made of brown ... / brown sugar and butter and pecans |
rock candy | sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string |
rock candy, rock | Hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint) |
sugar candy | made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens |
sugarplum | Any of various small sugary candies |
taffy | chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy |
truffle, chocolate truffle | creamy chocolate candy |
Broader | sweet, confection | A food rich in sugar |
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Spanish | caramelo, dulce, golosina |
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Catalan | bombons, caramel, dolços, llaminadura, llaminadures |
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