お菓子 — meaning in English
okashi
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English meaning
- candy noun Sweet confectionery made mainly from sugar, often flavored with chocolate, fruit, or nuts.
- confection noun A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
- confectionery noun Sweets, chocolates and similar sugary foods, considered collectively.
- sweets noun British informal term for candy or confectionery.
Senses
お菓子 is used for these senses in English:
- candy (countable, chiefly, North America, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
- confection A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
- confectionery (uncountable) Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.
- sweets Confectionery, candy.
candy — full definition
- noun Sweet confectionery made mainly from sugar, often flavored with chocolate, fruit, or nuts.
- verb To coat or cook something in sugar syrup until it hardens.
- noun Slang for crack cocaine.
confection — full definition
- noun A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
- noun The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
- noun The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
- noun An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.