Usually means: Sweet, flavored treat, usually sugary.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. candy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. candy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. candy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. candy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. candy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Candy, candy: Wordnik
  7. candy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Candy, candy: Wiktionary
  9. candy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. candy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. candy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Candy, candy: Dictionary.com
  13. candy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. candy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Candy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. candy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. candy: Rhymezone
  19. Candy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. candy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Candy: American-Britih Dictionary
  22. candy: Free Dictionary
  23. candy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Candy: The Word Detective
  25. candy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. candy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Candy: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. CANDY: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. candy: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. candy: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. candy, candy, candy, candy, candy, candy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Candy: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

(Note: See candied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
noun:  (countable, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
noun:  (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.
noun:  (uncountable) An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.
verb:  (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
verb:  (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
verb:  (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
noun:  (obsolete) A unit of weight used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
noun:  A pet form of the female given name Candace or Candice.
noun:  (historical) The Mediterranean island of Crete.
noun:  (historical) The Kingdom of Kandy on the island now known as Sri Lanka; (by extension) the British colony of Ceylon on that island.
noun:  (historical) The city of Kandy, the capital of that kingdom.
noun:  A surname.

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