Sugar Definition

sho͝ogər

sugared, sugaring, sugars

noun

sugars

Any of a class of sweet, soluble, crystalline carbohydrates, as the disaccharides and the monosaccharides.

Webster's New World

Sucrose, esp. when prepared as a crystalline or powdered substance used as a food and sweetening agent.

Webster's New World

A sugar bowl, specif. as forming a set with a creamer.

Webster's New World

Webster's New World

Sweetheart. Used as a term of endearment.

American Heritage

Synonyms:

verb

sugared, sugaring, sugars

To mix, cover, sprinkle, or sweeten with sugar.

Webster's New World

To form sugar.

Webster's New World

Webster's New World

To make less distasteful or more appealing.

American Heritage

To boil down maple syrup to form maple sugar.

Webster's New World

Synonyms:

interjection

(informal, euphemistic) Used in place of shit!

Oh, sugar!

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Sugar

Singular:

sugar

Plural:

From later Old French çucre (circa 13th cent), from Medieval Latin zuccarum, from Old Italian zucchero, from Arabic سُكّر (súkkar), from Persian شکر (Å¡akar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar", originally "grit, gravel"), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh- (“gravel, boulder"), akin to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókÄ“, “pebble").

From Wiktionary
Middle English sugre from Old French sukere from Medieval Latin succārum from Old Italian zucchero from Arabic sukkar from Persian shakar from Sanskrit śarkarā grit, ground sugar

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition