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dragée

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /dɹæˈʒeɪ/
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  • rhymes with -eɪ

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noun

Meaning 1

A sweet or confection with a hard outer shell, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Narrower terms: lentil

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French dragée.

Across languages

Translations

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مُلَبَّس (mulabbas) — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Armenian: դրաժե (draže) — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Azerbaijani: draje — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Belarusian: дражэ́ (dražé) — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Bulgarian: драже́ (dražé) — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Catalan: dragea — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Chinese Mandarin: 糖衣 (tángyī) — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Danish: dragé — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Estonian: dražee — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • French: dragée — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Middle French: dragee — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Georgian: დრაჟე (draže) — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Hungarian: drazsé — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Japanese: ドラジェ (doraje) — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Korean: 드라제 (deuraje) — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Iranian Persian: نُقْل — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Iranian Persian: دْراژِه (drâže) — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Iranian Persian: دِراژِه (derâže) — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Polish: drażetka — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Polish: draża — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Portuguese: drageia — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Romanian: drajeu — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Russian: драже́ (dražé) — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Spanish: gragea — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Swedish: dragé — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Turkish: draje — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
  • Ukrainian: драже́ (dražé) — a sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.