1. a sweet food made with sugar or chocolate

1. to preserve fruit or other food by cooking it in sugar

Examples

• The children received candy on Halloween.
• She bought a box of chocolate candy for her friend.
• The store sells various types of hard candy.
• My grandmother likes to candy orange peels.
• The recipe calls for candied ginger.
• He ate too much candy and got a stomachache.
• The candy melted in the hot car.