BROWN SUGAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brown sugar mean? 

• BROWN SUGAR (noun)
  The noun BROWN SUGAR has 1 sense:

1. unrefined or only partly refined sugar

  Familiarity information: BROWN SUGAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROWN SUGAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unrefined or only partly refined sugar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("brown sugar" is a kind of...):

refined sugar; sugar (a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brown sugar"):

demerara; demerara sugar (light brown cane sugar; originally from Guyana)

 Context examples 

"I'm very sorry, indeed," said Dorothy, who was truly frightened to see the Witch actually melting away like brown sugar before her very eyes.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)