SUGAR
What does "SUGAR" mean?
A sweet crystalline carbohydrate used to flavor food, chiefly sucrose from cane or beet.
Meanings
- Sucrose, the sweet crystalline substance extracted from sugarcane or sugar beet and used as a sweetener. She stirred two spoons of sugar into her coffee.
- Any of a class of soluble carbohydrates including glucose, fructose, and lactose. Blood sugar levels spike after a high-carbohydrate meal. technical
- A term of endearment for a person. Pass me the keys, sugar. informal
- To sweeten or coat with sugar; figuratively, to make something more palatable. He tried to sugar the bad news with a joke.
Did you know?
- Trace 'sugar' far enough back and you reach the Sanskrit 'sharkara', meaning 'gravel' - early sugar arrived as coarse, gritty crystals rather than the fine white powder we know.
Word origin
From Arabic 'sukkar', via Medieval Latin 'succarum' and Old French 'sucre'; the Arabic itself traces back to Sanskrit 'sharkara', meaning gravel or ground sugar.
A little poem
White grains in the spoon-
a whole field of green and sun
boiled down to one sweet.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the sugar refuse to argue? It knew it would only dissolve under pressure.
What it teaches
Sweetness is a coating, not a cure; what it covers does not stop being true.
Quick facts
What does SUGAR mean?
A sweet crystalline carbohydrate used to flavor food, chiefly sucrose from cane or beet.
Is SUGAR a valid word?
Yes — SUGAR is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SUGAR?
SUGAR has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does SUGAR come from?
From Arabic 'sukkar', via Medieval Latin 'succarum' and Old French 'sucre'; the Arabic itself traces back to Sanskrit 'sharkara', meaning gravel or ground sugar.
What can SUGAR teach us?
Sweetness is a coating, not a cure; what it covers does not stop being true.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.