caster sugar

1. 1.

   very finely granulated sugar that was formerly sprinkled from a castor

   Synonymscastor sugar

   Broaderpowdered sugar

   United Kingdom

Questions about caster sugar

What does caster sugar mean?

caster sugar means "very finely granulated sugar that was formerly sprinkled from a castor".

What is another word for caster sugar?

Close synonyms include castor sugar. 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 caster sugar a common word?

caster sugar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.