caramel

1. 1.

   firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk

   Broadercandy
2. 2.

   burnt sugar; used to color and flavor food

   Synonymscaramelized sugar

   Broadersugar
3. 3.

   a medium to dark tan color

   Synonymsyellowish brownraw siennabuffcaramel brown

   Broaderbrown

   Narrowersnuff-color

1. 1.

   having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow-brown

   Synonymscaramel brown

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of caramel

plural

caramels·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about caramel

What does caramel mean?

caramel means "firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in caramel?

caramel has 3 syllables: car-a-mel. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkɛɹəməl/.

What is another word for caramel?

Close synonyms include caramelized sugar, yellowish brown, raw sienna, buff, caramel brown. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is caramel a common word?

caramel is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.