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Meanings of candy in English

Russian
конфеты
Portuguese
drageia
Spanish
chuche
Catalan
llaminadures
Wikidata

Confection made with sugar.

конфеты
Portuguese
coisa doce
Catalan
caramel
Spanish
caramelo

A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts.

coisa doce
Synonyms
Examples for "confect"
Examples for "confect"
1
And the media will not only indulge him, they will confect and contort to position him in the spotlight.
The Guardian
2
It was among several films he confected in the early 1960s.
The Guardian
3
Soon a juggernaut of confected grief is roaring out of control.
The Guardian
4
He is used to people confecting competitions between the two.
The Guardian
5
That's what the confected moral panic about international permits and ute confiscation tells us.
The Guardian

Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze.

Unit of weight from South Asia.

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Usage of candy in English
1
One bag contains candy; one contains flour; another peanuts; another water, etc.
School, Church, and Home Games
2
Look what I've got here: food, drink, candy, guns, bullets-and power, Roland.
Swan Song
3
Perhaps in time he will recover; he isn't made of sugar candy.
Hemlock Grove
4
Surprise your partner with their favorite gourmet food or guilty pleasure candy.
Ebony
5
The storekeeper weighed out the candy and dumped it in a bag.
The Secret Wireless; Or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol
6
It's a trailer park, south of town past that one candy place.
John Dies at the End
7
The liquids come in thousands of flavors, from cotton candy to pizza.
Reuters
8
Mrs. Redden opened the glass show-case in which the candy was kept.
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue
9
The PX did a big business selling candy bars in the evenings.
The Biography of a Rabbit
10
Anyone would think that Annapolis was all the candy in the land.
The High School Captain of the Team; or, Dick & Co. Leading the ...
11
From the ingredients in this recipe was made 3 pounds of candy.
Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled During Her Visit A...
12
She had eaten candy all day to keep going, and power bars.
Sisters
13
He saw candy bar wrappers and cigarettes and crumpled pieces of paper.
Apocalypse of the Dead
14
His taste in literature was as impossible as his taste in candy.
Just Patty
15
The products marketed were primarily candy, cereal, quick serve restaurants, and snacks.
Pubmed
16
You didn't mean to do anything wrong, you just wanted the candy.
Seeing stars
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Candy through the time
Candy across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common