POWDERED SUGAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does powdered sugar mean? 

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

1. sugar granulated into a fine powder

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POWDERED SUGAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sugar granulated into a fine powder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

granulated sugar (sugar in the form of small grains)

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

caster sugar; castor sugar (very finely granulated sugar that was formerly sprinkled from a castor)

icing sugar (finely powdered sugar used to make icing)