n. The general name of certain chemical compounds belonging to the group of carbohydrates.n. A sweet crystalline substance, prepared chiefly from the expressed juice of the sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum, and of the sugar-beet, but obtained also from a great variety of other plants, as maple, maize, sorghum, birch, and parsnip.n. Something that resembles sugar many of its properties.n. Figuratively, sweet, honeyed, or soothing words; flattery employed to disguise something distasteful.n. The coarse grains or dust of refined sugar formed during the operations of crushing or cutting loaf-sugar, and separated from the lumps by screening.To season, cover, sprinkle, mix, or impregnate with sugar.Figuratively, to cover as with sugar; sweeten; disguise so as to render acceptable what is otherwise distasteful.To sweeten something, as tea, with sugar.To make (maple) sugar.