mo·las·ses

(mə-lăs′ĭz)

n. pl. molasses

1. A thick syrup produced in refining raw sugar and ranging from light to dark brown in color.

2. Any of various thick syrups made from juice extracted from the fruits or stalks of certain plants: pomegranate molasses.

[Portuguese melaços, pl. of melaço, from Late Latin mellāceum, must, from Latin mel, mell-, honey; see melit- in Indo-European roots.]

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molasses

(məˈlæsɪz)

n (functioning as singular)

1. (Cookery) the thick brown uncrystallized bitter syrup obtained from sugar during refining

2. (Cookery) US and Canadian a dark viscous syrup obtained during the refining of sugar. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): treacle

[C16: from Portuguese melaço, from Late Latin mellāceum must, from Latin mel honey]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

mo•las•ses

(məˈlæs ɪz)

n.

a thick syrup produced during the refining of sugar or from sorghum, usu. dark brown in color.

[1575–85; earlier molassos, molasso(e)s < Portuguese melaços, pl. of melaço (< Late Latin mellācium half-boiled new wine, derivative of Latin mel honey)]

molasses

A by-product of sugar refining that can be used as a spread or in a similar way to golden syrup in recipes.

Molasses

A term now applied to the residual syrup from sugarmaking but, in farming communities, “molasses” meant the boiled-down juice of sweet sorghum cane.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

molasses - thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining

sirup, syrup - a thick sweet sticky liquid

Translations

دِبْس السُّكَّردِبْسُ السُكَّر

melasa

melassesirup

siirappi

šećerni sirup

melasz

melassi, síróp

melassa

糖蜜

당밀

melasasirupas

melasesīrups

melass

น้ำเชื่อม

melasşeker pekmezi

mật đường

糖蜜

molasses

[məˈlæsɪz] NSING → melaza f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

molasses

[məˈlæsɪz] n → mélasse f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

molasses

n → Melasse f; to be as slow as molasses (in winter) (US inf) → eine (fürchterliche) Transuse sein (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

molasses

[məʊˈlæsɪz] nsg → melassa

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

molasses

(məˈlӕsiz) noun

(American) treacle.

Molasses

→ دِبْسُ السُكَّر melasa sirup Sirup μελάσα melaza siirappi mélasse šećerni sirup melassa 糖蜜 당밀 stroop melasse melasa melaço патока melass น้ำเชื่อม melas mật đường 糖蜜

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After tea that evening, Fanny proposed that Polly should show her how to make molasses candy, as it was cook's holiday, and the coast would be clear.

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Some of you left a soup plate with molasses in it on the pantry table and Pat got into it and what do you think?

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It was, for nearly two years after this, rye and Indian meal without yeast, potatoes, rice, a very little salt pork, molasses, and salt; and my drink, water.

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"But I have ordered him a dish of bread and molasses to eat when his work is done."

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If he wished for a barrel of molasses, he might purchase it with a pile of pine boards.

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At one time they must have been full of good old slow West Indiamen of the square-stern type, that took their captivity, one imagines, as stolidly as they had faced the buffeting of the waves with their blunt, honest bows, and disgorged sugar, rum, molasses, coffee, or logwood sedately with their own winch and tackle.

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She could trim a hat, make molasses candy, recite "Curfew shall not ring to-night," and play "The Lost Chord" and a pot-pourri from "Carmen." When she tried to extend the field of her activities in the direction of stenography and book-keeping her health broke down, and six months on her feet behind the counter of a department store did not tend to restore it.

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Here the boys emerged from under the table, and, with hands and faces well plastered with molasses, began a vigorous kissing of the baby.

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The family had been living on corncakes and sorghum molasses for three days.

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The molasses, vinegar, and kerosene had lasted the family for five years, and the Perkins attic was still a treasure-house of ginghams, cottons, and "Yankee notions." So at Rebecca's instigation Mrs.

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On one was piled certain curiously twisted and complicated figures, called “nut-cakes,” On another were heaps of a black-looking sub stance, which, receiving its hue from molasses, was properly termed “sweet-cake ;” a wonderful favorite in the coterie of Remarkable, A third was filled, to use the language of the housekeeper, with “cards of gingerbread ;” and the last held a “ plum- cake,” so called from the number of large raisins that were showing their black heads in a substance of suspiciously similar color.

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"You should see me brother Molloy Malony's horse, Molasses, that won the cop at the Curragh," the Major's wife was exclaiming, and was continuing the family history, when her husband interrupted her by saying--

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