caramel
- Top 10000
Sense 1
- noun
- B2
A soft sweet brown food made by cooking sugar until it turns thick. People eat it, or pour it over other food.
Heat the sugar slowly, or the caramel will burn and taste bitter.
He offered me a caramel from a crumpled paper bag.
The caramel stuck to my teeth and I could hardly speak.
Salted caramel has become the most popular flavour in our shop.
Common collocations: salted caramel · caramel sauce · caramel flavour · sticky caramel · a bag of caramels
Sense 2 · less common
- adjective
- B2
Having the warm light brown colour of melted, browned sugar.
Her hair turned a warm caramel shade over the summer.
They chose caramel leather for the seats in the hallway.
The walls are a soft caramel that makes the room feel warmer.
Common collocations: caramel brown · caramel shade · caramel leather · caramel highlights
Part of: Colours
Forms
- plural
- caramels