name
Meaning 1
A pet form of the female given name Candace or Candice.
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Standard Lemma guide
candy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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kăn'di
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/ˈkændi/
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rhymes with -ændi
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name
Meaning 2
The Mediterranean island of Crete.
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Usage: historical
Examples
- c. 1619, John Ford (formerly attributed to Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher), The Laws of Candy, Act I, Scene 2, [...] if to renown Your honours through the world, to fix your names, Like Blazing stars admir’d, and fear’d by all That have but heard of Candy or a Cretan, Be to deserve the approvement of my man-hood, Then thus much have I done:
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name
Meaning 3
The Kingdom of Kandy on the island now known as Sri Lanka; (by extension) the British colony of Ceylon on that island.
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Usage: historical
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name
Meaning 4
The city of Kandy, the capital of that kingdom.
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Usage: historical
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name
Meaning 5
A surname.
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noun
Meaning 6
Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
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Usage: Canada, Philippines, US, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
A piece of confectionery of this kind.
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Usage: Canada, Philippines, US, countable
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noun
Meaning 9
crack cocaine.
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Usage: US, countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 10
An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- candy kid; candy raver
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noun
Meaning 11
A unit of weight used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
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Usage: obsolete
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verb
Meaning 12
To cook in or coat with sugar syrup.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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verb
Meaning 13
To form into congelations or crystals, especially of sugar or syrup.
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Usage: intransitive
Examples
- Fruits preserved in sugar candy over time.
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verb
Meaning 14
To become candy; to solidify into a candylike form or mass.
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Usage: intransitive
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noun
Meaning 15
a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: confect
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sweet, confection
Narrower terms: candy bar, carob bar, hard candy, brandyball, patty, bonbon, brittle, toffee, toffy, butterscotch, candy cane, candy corn, caramel, cotton candy, spun sugar, candyfloss, dragee, fondant, fudge, gumdrop, honey crisp, mint, mint candy, horehound, jelly bean, jelly egg, kiss, candy kiss, licorice, liquorice, Life Saver, lollipop, sucker, all-day sucker, lozenge, marshmallow, marzipan, marchpane, nougat, nougat bar, nut bar, peanut bar, popcorn ball, praline, rock candy, rock, sugar candy, sugarplum, taffy, truffle, chocolate truffle, Turkish Delight, Easter egg
verb
Meaning 16
coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sugarcoat, glaze
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate
History
Etymology
From Venetan and Latin Candia, from Ancient Greek Χάνδαξ (Khándax) or Χάνδακας (Khándakas), from Arabic رَبْض الخَنْدَق (rabḍ al-ḵandaq) (in particular Arabic خَنْدَق (ḵandaq), borrowed from Middle Persian *handag (whence Classical Persian هندک (handak, “moat”))), name of the Cretan city of Heraklion under the Emirate of Crete.
From Portuguese Candea, from Tamil கண்டி (kaṇṭi), possibly further from Sinhalese, ultimately from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa).
From Middle English sugre candy, from Old French sucre candi (literally “candied sugar”), from Arabic سُكَّر قَنْدِي (sukkar qandī), from Arabic قَنْد (qand, “rock candy”), from Persian کند (kand) from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “piece, fragment, candied sugar, dried molasses”), root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu; compare Tamil கண்டு (kaṇṭu, “hard candy”).
From Marathi खंडी (khaṇḍī), from Sanskrit खण्डन (khaṇḍana), from root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”).
Across languages
Translations
217 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: lekkergoed — piece of candy
- Albanian: karamele — piece of candy
- Albanian: bonbone — piece of candy
- Albanian: sheqerkë — piece of candy
- Southern Altai: конфет (konfet) — piece of candy
- Ambonese Malay: gula-gula — piece of candy
- Western Apache: ilkąądijígé — piece of candy
- Arabic: حَلْوَى (ḥalwā) — piece of candy
- Arabic: حَلْوَى سُكَّرِيَّة (ḥalwā sukkariyya) — piece of candy
- Arabic: حلاو (ḥəlaw) — piece of candy
- Arabic: حلاوة (ḥalāwa) — piece of candy
- Armenian: կոնֆետ (konfet) — piece of candy
- Azerbaijani: konfet — piece of candy
- Azerbaijani: çərəz — piece of candy
- Bashkir: кәнфит (kənfit) — piece of candy
- Belarusian: цуке́рка (cukjérka) — piece of candy
- Bengali: মিছরি (michori) — piece of candy
- Bengali: ক্যান্ডি (kênḍi) — piece of candy
- Bulgarian: бонбо́н (bonbón) — piece of candy
- Burmese: ချိုချဉ် (hkyuihkyany) — piece of candy
- Burmese: သကြားလုံး (sa.kra:lum:) — piece of candy
- Catalan: caramel — piece of candy
- Catalan: llaminadura — piece of candy
- Catalan: llepolia — piece of candy
- Chechen: кемпет (kempet) — piece of candy
- Cherokee: ᎧᎵᏎᏥ (kalisetsi) — piece of candy
- Chinese Cantonese: 糖 — piece of candy
- Chinese: тон (ton) — piece of candy
- Eastern Min Chinese: 糖 (tòng) — piece of candy
- Hakka Chinese: 糖仔 (thòng-é) — piece of candy
- Chinese: 糖仔 (thn̂g-á) — piece of candy
- Chinese: 金含 (zh-min-nan) — piece of candy
- Chinese Mandarin: 糖果 (tángguǒ) — piece of candy
- Chinese Mandarin: 糖 (táng) — piece of candy
- Wu Chinese: 糖 — piece of candy
- Wu Chinese: 糖果 — piece of candy
- Xiang Chinese: 糖粒子 (dan2 li4 zr) — piece of candy
- Crimean Tatar: qanfet — piece of candy
- Czech: sladkost — piece of candy
- Czech: bonbón — piece of candy
- Danish: slik — piece of candy
- Dhivehi: މެޓާ (meṭā) — piece of candy
- Dutch: snoepje — piece of candy
- Esperanto: dolĉaĵo — piece of candy
- Esperanto: sukeraĵo — piece of candy
- Estonian: komm — piece of candy
- Estonian: kompvek — piece of candy
- Faroese: góðgæti — piece of candy
- Faroese: bomm — piece of candy
- Finnish: karkki — piece of candy
- French: bonbon — piece of candy
- French: sucrerie — piece of candy
- French: dragée — piece of candy
- Georgian: კანფეტი (ḳanpeṭi) — piece of candy
- German: Süßigkeit — piece of candy
- German: Konfekt — piece of candy
- German: Bonbon — piece of candy
- German: Zältli — piece of candy
- German: Täfi — piece of candy
- Greek: καραμέλα (karaméla) — piece of candy
- Greek: ζαχαρωτό (zacharotó) — piece of candy
- Hebrew: סוכריה — piece of candy
- Hebrew: סֻכָּרִיָּה (sukariyá) — piece of candy
- Hebrew: מַמְתָּק (mamták) — piece of candy
- Hindi: मिसरी (misrī) — piece of candy
- Hindi: खण्ड (khaṇḍ) — piece of candy
- Hindi: कैंडी (kaiṇḍī) — piece of candy
- Hindi: खंड (khaṇḍ) — piece of candy
- White Hmong: khob noom — piece of candy
- Hungarian: cukorka — piece of candy
- Hungarian: édesség — piece of candy
- Icelandic: sælgæti — piece of candy
- Icelandic: nammi — piece of candy
- Ido: bonbono — piece of candy
- Indonesian: permen — piece of candy
- Indonesian: gula-gula — piece of candy
- Ingrian: letenitsa — piece of candy
- Ingrian: toomain — piece of candy
- Interlingua: bonbon — piece of candy
- Irish: milseán — piece of candy
- Italian: caramella — piece of candy
- Italian: confetto — piece of candy
- Japanese: キャンデー (kyandē) — piece of candy
- Japanese: キャンディ (kyandi) — piece of candy
- Japanese: お菓子 (okashi) — piece of candy
- Japanese: 飴 (ame) — piece of candy
- Javanese: permèn (krama/ngoko) — piece of candy
- Kazakh: кәмпит (kämpit) — piece of candy
- Khmer: ស្ករ (skɑɑ) — piece of candy
- Korean: 캔디 (kaendi) — piece of candy
- Korean: 사탕 (satang) — piece of candy
- Korean: 엿 (yeot) — piece of candy
- Central Kurdish: نوقڵ (nuqill) — piece of candy
- Northern Kurdish: şêranî — piece of candy
- Northern Kurdish: şîranî — piece of candy
- Kyrgyz: конфета (konfeta) — piece of candy
- Ladin: giaulon (Sëlva) — piece of candy
- Ladin: bigul — piece of candy
- Lao: ເຂົ້າຫນົມອົມ (khao nom ʼom) — piece of candy
- Lao: ຂະຫນົມ (kha nom) — piece of candy
- Latin: cuppēdia — piece of candy
- Latin: bellāria — piece of candy
- Latvian: saldums — piece of candy
- Latvian: konfekte — piece of candy
- Lithuanian: saldainis — piece of candy
- Luxembourgish: Kamell — piece of candy
- Macedonian: бонбо́на (bonbóna) — piece of candy
- Malagasy: vatomamy — piece of candy
- Malay: gula-gula — piece of candy
- Malayalam: മിഠായി (miṭhāyi) — piece of candy
- Western Mari: кампеткӓ (kampetkä) — piece of candy
- Maricopa: ʼayuu mnyee — piece of candy
- Mongolian: чихэр (čixer) — piece of candy
- Mongolian: амттан (amttan) — piece of candy
- Navajo: ałkʼésdisí — piece of candy
- Norwegian Bokmål: godteri — piece of candy
- O'odham: lu꞉lsi — piece of candy
- Ossetian: къафетт (k’afett) — piece of candy
- Pannonian Rusyn: бомбона (bombona) — piece of candy
- Pashto: مټايي (maṭāyi) — piece of candy
- Pashto: مېټايي (meṭāyi) — piece of candy
- Iranian Persian: آبْنَبات (âbnabât) — piece of candy
- Iranian Persian: کانْفِت (kânfet) — piece of candy
- Iranian Persian: شیرینی (širini) — piece of candy
- Plautdietsch: Kend — piece of candy
- Polish: cukierek — piece of candy
- Portuguese: rebuçado — piece of candy
- Portuguese: bombom — piece of candy
- Portuguese: doce — piece of candy
- Portuguese: bala — piece of candy
- Portuguese: confeito — piece of candy
- Portuguese: docinho — piece of candy
- Romanian: bomboană — piece of candy
- Russian: конфе́та (konféta) — piece of candy
- Russian: сласть (slastʹ) — piece of candy
- Sanskrit: खण्ड (khaṇḍa) — piece of candy
- Scottish Gaelic: suiteas — piece of candy
- Serbo-Croatian: бо̀мбо̄н — piece of candy
- Serbo-Croatian: bòmbōn — piece of candy
- Silesian: bůmbůn — piece of candy
- Slovak: cukrík — piece of candy
- Slovene: sladkarija — piece of candy
- Slovene: bonbon — piece of candy
- Slovene: slaščica — piece of candy
- Sotho: pompong — piece of candy
- Spanish: caramelo — piece of candy
- Spanish: dulce — piece of candy
- Spanish: confite — piece of candy
- Spanish: golosina — piece of candy
- Spanish: dragea — piece of candy
- Spanish: cotufa — piece of candy
- Spanish: chuchería — piece of candy
- Spanish: chuche — piece of candy
- Spanish: lamín — piece of candy
- Spanish: golmajería — piece of candy
- Spanish: galguería — piece of candy
- Swahili: tamtam — piece of candy
- Swedish: godis — piece of candy
- Swedish: karamell — piece of candy
- Tagalog: kendi — piece of candy
- Tajik: конфет (konfet) — piece of candy
- Tajik: ширинӣ (širini) — piece of candy
- Tatar: кәнфит (känfit) — piece of candy
- Tatar: конфет (qönfet) — piece of candy
- Thai: ขนม (kà-nǒm) — piece of candy
- Thai: ขนมหวาน (kà-nǒm-wǎan) — piece of candy
- Thai: ลูกอม (lûuk-om) — piece of candy
- Tibetan: བྱི་རིལ (byi ril) — piece of candy
- Turkish: tatlı — piece of candy
- Turkish: şeker — piece of candy
- Turkish: bonbon — piece of candy
- Turkmen: süýji — piece of candy
- Ukrainian: цуке́рка (cukérka) — piece of candy
- Ukrainian: цуке́рок (cukérok) — piece of candy
- Ukrainian: конфе́та (konféta) — piece of candy
- Ukrainian: бонбо́н (bonbón) — piece of candy
- Unami: kèntis — piece of candy
- Urdu: کَینْڈی (kainḍī) — piece of candy
- Urdu: مِصْری (misrī) — piece of candy
- Urdu: مِٹھائی کی گولی (miṭhāī kī golī) — piece of candy
- Uyghur: ناۋات (nawat) — piece of candy
- Uyghur: كەمپۈت (kempüt) — piece of candy
- Uyghur: كەمپىت (kempit) — piece of candy
- Uzbek: shirinlik — piece of candy
- Uzbek: asal — piece of candy
- Uzbek: qand — piece of candy
- Uzbek: konfet — piece of candy
- Veps: kanfet — piece of candy
- Vietnamese: kẹo — piece of candy
- Yakut: кэмпиэт (kempiet) — piece of candy
- Yiddish: צוקערל (tsukerl) — piece of candy
- Yiddish: קאָנפֿעקט (konfekt) — piece of candy
- Yiddish: צוקערקע (tsukerke) — piece of candy
- Zazaki: qende — piece of candy
- Zhuang: dangz — piece of candy
- Zhuang: dangznaed — piece of candy
- German: Candy — unit of weight
- Marathi: खंडी (khaṇḍī) — unit of weight
- Portuguese: candil — unit of weight
- Sanskrit: खण्डन (khaṇḍana) — unit of weight
- Sanskrit: भार (bhāra) — unit of weight
- Tamil: கண்டி (kaṇṭi) — unit of weight
- Tamil: பாரம் (pāram) — unit of weight
- Telugu: ఖండి (khaṇḍi) — unit of weight
- Telugu: పుట్టి (puṭṭi) — unit of weight
- Bulgarian: захаросвам (zaharosvam) — to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup
- Catalan: candir — to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup
- Finnish: kandeerata — to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup
- French: candir — to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup
- French: confire — to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup
- German: kandieren — to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup
- Greek: καραμελώνω (karamelóno) — to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup
- Hebrew: סיכר (sikér) — to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup
- Hungarian: kandíroz — to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup
- Italian: candire — to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup
- Polish: kandyzować — to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup
- Swedish: kandera — to cook, or coat with sugar or syrup
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