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The correct spelling is candy.
How to pronounce candy
/ˈkændi/
nounIPA: /ˈkændi/
Say it like: Can-dee
The correct spelling is candy. Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors. For example: "Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time."
Usage Examples
“Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
- 2.A piece of confectionery of this kind.
- 3.(slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.
- 4.A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
verb
- 1.To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
- 2.To have sugar crystals form in or on.
- 3.To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
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