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golosina — meaning in English

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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.
  • delicacy noun A rare or highly valued food, often specific to a culture.
  • treat verb To behave toward someone or something in a particular way.

Senses

golosina 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.
  • delicacy Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement.
  • sweetmeat A sweet delicacy; a confection.
  • treat A snack food item designed to be given to pets.

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.

confection — full definition

  1. 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.
  2. noun The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
  3. noun The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
  4. noun An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.

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