HOW TO PRONOUNCE
caramel
/ˈkæɹ.ə.mɛl/
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“Caramel sauce.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does caramel mean?
noun
- A smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.
- A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection.
- A yellow-brown color, like that of caramel.
More meanings (3)
adjective
- Of a yellow-brown color.
proper noun
- A surname from Occitan.
verb
- (dated) To caramelize.
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IPA pronunciation
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Three syllables
/ˈkæɹ.ə.mɛl//ˈkæɹ.ə.məl/
Two syllables
/ˈkɑɹ.məl/
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“The throne belongs to whoever is able to take it,” answered Jinjur, as she slowly ate another caramel.
To separate the two, they would be put into a dialyzer suspended in water, when HCl will diffuse through into the water, and caramel will remain.
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There you read the label on a tin of caramel pudding, and you could be sure that the rest of the caramel puddings were in the vicinity.
Ingredients: Cream, eggs, caramel sugar, vanilla or lemon flavouring.