sugar
/ˈʃʊɡ.ə/
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Translation
A sweet white or brown food that people add to drinks and cakes.
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".
Please .
Here "sugar" is the sweet food I am asking for.
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