Molasses

English

Noun

Molasses (uncountable)

1. A thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar.

Synonyms

• long sweetening, treacle

Derived terms

• slow as molasses

Noun

molasses

1. Plural form of molasse.

Adjectives for Molasses

dark; sorghum; fermented; tasty; rubber-like.

Thesaurus

adherent, adhesive, albumen, ambrosia, artificial sweetener, barnacle, batter, blackstrap, bonnyclabber, bramble, brier, bulldog, burr, butter, calcium cyclamate, cane syrup, cement, clabber, clover honey, comb honey, corn syrup, cornstarch, cream, curd, cyclamates, decal, decalcomania, dough, edulcoration, egg white, gaum, gel, gelatin, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gruel, gumbo, gunk, honey, honeycomb, honeydew, honeypot, jam, jell, jelly, leech, limpet, loblolly, maple syrup, mucilage, mucus, nectar, pap, paste, plaster, porridge, prickle, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, remora, rob, saccharification, saccharin, semifluid, semiliquid, size, sodium cyclamate, sorghum, soup, starch, sticker, sticky mess, sugar, sugar-making, sugaring off, sweetener, sweetening, sweets, syrup, thorn, treacle

Etymology

French mélasse or Portuguese melaço compare Spanish melaza < Late Latin mellaceus "honeylike", "honey-sweet" < Latin mel, mellis, "honey". See mellifluous and compare melasses.

Translations

Noun

thick brownish syrup refined from raw sugar

Afrikaans: melasse Asturian: melaza (ast) f. Breton: triakl (br) m. Dutch: melasse (nl) f. Esperanto: melaso Finnish: melassi (fi) French: mélasse (fr) f. Galician: melaza (gl) f. German: Melasse (de) f., Sirup (de) m. Hebrew: דבשה (divsha) f. Hungarian: melasz (hu) Italian: melassa (it) f.

Japanese: 糖蜜 (とうみつ, tōmitsu) Korean: 당밀 (ko) (dangmil) Manx: soo shugyr (gv) Polish: melasa (pl) f. Portuguese: melaço m. Quechua: q'ita (qu) Russian: меласса (ru) (melássa) f. Spanish: melaza (es) f. Sranan: malasi Swedish: melass c. Volapük: melat (vo)

References

• molasses in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “molasses” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001