syrup
- noun
- B2
- Top 10000
A thick, very sweet liquid made by cooking sugar with water, or taken from a plant such as a maple tree.
Pour a little maple syrup over the pancakes while they are hot.
The tinned pears came in a thick syrup that was too sweet.
Boil the sugar and water together until it turns into a clear syrup.
He took a spoonful of cough syrup before going to bed.
Common collocations: maple syrup · golden syrup · cough syrup · fruit in syrup · pour syrup over something · sticky syrup
Forms
- plural
- syrups