Usually means: Thick, sweet syrup from sugarcane.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Molasses, molasses: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. molasses: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. molasses: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. molasses: Collins English Dictionary
  5. molasses: Vocabulary.com
  6. Molasses, molasses: Wordnik
  7. molasses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. molasses: Wiktionary
  9. molasses: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. molasses: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. molasses: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Molasses, molasses: Dictionary.com
  13. molasses: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. molasses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Molasses (film), Molasses: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Molasses: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. molasses: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. molasses: Rhymezone
  19. Molasses: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. molasses: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Molasses: American-Britih Dictionary
  22. molasses: Free Dictionary
  23. molasses: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. molasses: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. molasses: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. molasses: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. molasses: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Molasses: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. molasses: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. molasses: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Culinary Cafe (No longer online)

(Note: See molassess as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially (Canada, US) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses.
noun:  (US) Any similarly thick and sweet syrup produced by boiling down fruit juices, tree saps, etc., especially concentrated maple syrup.
noun:  (figuratively) Anything considered figuratively sweet, especially sweet words.
noun:  (figuratively) Something which moves or works extremely slowly.
noun:  (Scotland, rare, obsolete) Synonym of molass: whiskey made from molasses.

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