lump sugar
- noun
- /lʌmp ˈʃʌɡər/
- UK
:
azúcar en terrones
- She dropped a lump sugar into her tea and stirred it gently.
Examples
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Could you pass me a lump sugar?
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He prefers lump sugar to granulated sugar when he has his morning coffee.
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The café only served coffee with lump sugar on the side.
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I prefer lump sugars in my tea.
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She stirred her tea with a piece of lump sugar to add some sweetness.
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At the café, I asked for two lump sugars to sweeten my coffee.
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He preferred to use lump sugar instead of granulated sugar in his recipes.
Synonyms
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1.0
Small white sugar grains used for cooking and baking
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1.3
Sweetener made from the tall plant sugarcane used to sweeten food and drinks
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2.9
A sweet ingredient made from beet roots to sweeten food and drink
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2.8
Large hard sugar crystals that people use to sweeten drinks and decorate food
A very fine sugar for baking and to sweeten drinks
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Morphology
The meaning 'sugar in chunk/lump form' is directly derivable from combining 'lump' (a chunk or mass) with 'sugar' — it simply names sugar presented as a lump or cube. This is a transparent noun+noun composition describing physical form, a cross-linguistically common concept, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun lump sugar comes from the simple idea of sugar pressed into small solid lumps or cubes that you can drop into a cup of tea or coffee. That's why the name means 'refined sugar pressed into small cube shapes' used to sweeten drinks.