caramel
Plural: caramels
Noun
- A chewy, sweet candy or a cooked sugar used for flavoring.
- firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk
- burnt sugar; used to color and flavor food
- a medium to dark tan color
- A smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.
- A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection.
- A yellow-brown color, like that of caramel.
Adjective Satellite
- having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow-brown
Adj
- Of a yellow-brown color.
Verb
- To caramelize.
Examples
- He savored the caramel-like richness of a perfectly constructed Scrabble word.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French caramel, from Spanish caramelo, from Portuguese caramelo, dissimilated from Late Latin calamellus, diminutive of calamus (“reed”) (and a doublet of chalumeau and shawm). Alternatively from Medieval Latin cannamellis, which is a compound of canna + mellis.
Synonyms
buff, caramel brown, caramelized sugar, raw sienna, yellowish brown
Scrabble Score: 11
caramel: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcaramel: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
caramel: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary