/ˈʃʊɡ.ə/

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Meaning

A sweet white or brown food that people add to drinks and cakes.

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Word origin

From Old French sucre, from Arabic sukkar, from an old word for sweet crystals.

Origin
Old French
Root
sucre

Examples

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"Sugar" is the sweet white food added to the tea.

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"Sugar" has no plural, so we say "much sugar".

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Here "sugar" is the sweet food I am asking for.

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This word is taught in chapter 18, lesson 1: sugar, loose, snow and 7 more words.