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caramelo — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • candy noun Sweet confectionery made mainly from sugar, often flavored with chocolate, fruit, or nuts.
  • caramel noun A chewy candy or sauce made by heating sugar until it turns golden-brown.
  • sweet adj Having the taste of sugar; not sour, salty, or bitter.
  • toffee noun A chewy sweet made by boiling sugar and butter (or milk) until it hardens on cooling.

Senses

caramelo is used for these senses in English:

  • candy (countable, chiefly, North America, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
  • caramel (countable) A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection.
  • sweet (countable, especially, _, UK, India) A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
  • toffee (uncountable) A type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard.

candy — full definition

  1. noun Sweet confectionery made mainly from sugar, often flavored with chocolate, fruit, or nuts.
  2. verb To coat or cook something in sugar syrup until it hardens.
  3. noun Slang for crack cocaine.

caramel — full definition

  1. noun A chewy candy or sauce made by heating sugar until it turns golden-brown.
  2. adj Having a yellowish-brown color like caramel candy.

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