a sweet food made mostly of sugar, often flavored or coated, and eaten as a treat
Mia shared her bag of candy with the whole class.
Too much candy can give you a stomachache.
✦ From Middle English *candy*, from Old French *çucre candi* (“candied sugar”), from Arabic قَنَد (*qand*, “sugar”), ultimately from Sanskrit खण्ड (*khaṇḍa*, “piece, fragment, sugar in crystalline form”).
to cook fruit, nuts, or peel in sugar syrup until coated with a shiny or crystalline layer
Grandma loves to candy orange peels for holiday cakes.
After the apples cooled, the chef candied them with a thin sugar glaze.
✦ Verb sense developed from the noun: to make something like candy by coating it with sugar.
