candy
- Top 3000
- American English only
Sense 1
- noun
- A1
A sweet food made mostly of sugar, eaten in small pieces between meals.
There is always a bowl of candy by my grandmother's door.
The dentist told him to eat less candy before going to bed.
She kept the candy in her coat pocket during the whole film.
He won a huge bag of candy at the school fair.
Common collocations: a piece of candy · a bag of candy · hard candy · candy bar · eat candy
Part of: Sweets, Shops and shopping
Sense 2 · less common
- verb
- C1
To cook fruit or peel in sugar syrup so that it turns sweet and keeps for a long time.
They candy orange peel every winter and store it in glass jars.
The cook candied thin slices of ginger in thick sugar syrup.
Common collocations: candy the peel · candied fruit · candied ginger
Forms
- past
- candied
- plural
- candies
- third_person
- candies
- past_participle
- candied