candy, confect
(noun) a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
sugarcoat, glaze, candy
(verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Candy
A pet form of the female given name Candace or Candice.
Candy
(historical) The Mediterranean island of Crete.
Candy
(historical) The Kingdom of Kandy on the island now known as Sri Lanka; (by extension) the British colony of Ceylon on that island.
(historical) The city of Kandy, the capital of that kingdom.
Candy
A surname.
• H. E. Bates
• Dancy, dancy
candy (countable and uncountable, plural candies)
(uncountable, chiefly, North America) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
(countable, chiefly, North America) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
(slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.
• (confection): confectionery, sweets (British), lollies (Australia), sugar candy (US)
• (piece of candy): sweet (British), lolly (Australia)
candy (third-person singular simple present candies, present participle candying, simple past and past participle candied)
(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
(intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
candy (plural candies)
(obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
• maunee
• Dancy, dancy
Source: Wiktionary
Can"dy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Candied; p. pr & vb. n. Candying.] Etym: [F. candir (cf. It. candire, Sp. azúcar cande or candi), fr. Ar. & Pers. qand, fr. Skr. Khan\'c8da piece, sugar in pieces or lumps, fr. khan\'c8, khad to break.]
1. To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
2. To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.
3. To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy. Those frosts that winter brings Which candy every green. Drayson.
Can"dy, v. i.
1. To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
2. To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
Can"dy n. Etym: [F. candi. See Candy, v. t.]
Definition: A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.
Candy, n. Etym: [Mahratta khan\'c8i, Tamil kan\'c8i.]
Definition: A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 January 2025
(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
