Syrup is a sweet liquid made by cooking sugar with water, and sometimes with fruit juice as well.
...canned fruit with sugary syrup.
2. uncountable noun
Syrup is a very sweet thick liquid made from sugar.
...a heavy syrup pudding.
3. See also golden syrup, maple syrup
4. variable noun
Syrup is a medicine in the form of a thick, sweet liquid.
...cough syrup.
syrup in British English
(ˈsɪrəp)
noun
1.
a solution of sugar dissolved in water and often flavoured with fruit juice: used for sweetening fruit, etc
2.
any of various thick sweet liquids prepared for cooking or table use from molasses, sugars, etc
3.
a liquid medicine containing a sugar solution for flavouring or preservation
4. informal
cloying sentimentality
5. British slang
a wig
verb(transitive)
6.
to bring to the consistency of syrup
7.
to cover, fill, or sweeten with syrup
Ancient name: sirup
Derived forms
syrup-like (ˈsyrup-ˌlike)
adjective
Word origin
C15: from Medieval Latin syrupus, from Arabic sharāb a drink, from shariba to drink: sense 4 from rhyming slang syrup of fig
syrup in American English
(ˈsɜrəp; ˈsɪrəp)
noun
any sweet, thick liquid
; specif.,
a.
a solution of sugar and water boiled together, to which flavoring is often added
b.
any solution of sugar used in pharmacy as a vehicle for medicines
c.
the sweet, thick liquid obtained in the process of manufacturing cane sugar or glucose
d.
maple syrup, corn syrup, etc.
Word origin
ME sirupe < OFr sirop < ML sirupus < Ar sharāb, a drink < shariba, to drink
syrup in the Pharmaceutical Industry
(sɪrəp)
Word forms: (regular plural) syrups
noun (count) (noncount)
(Pharmaceutical: Dosage forms)
Syrup is a medicine in the form of a thick liquid containing a sugar solution.
The cough medicine is supplied as a thick, sweet syrup.
The thick syrup is sweetened with a solution of sugar.
Syrup is a medicine in the form of a thick liquid containing a sugar solution.
corn syrup
Examples of 'syrup' in a sentence
syrup
Wash the raspberries and blend with the syrup and lemon juice.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Make the cardamom syrup by warming the caster sugar with the ground cardamom and lemon juice.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Serve with runny honey or maple syrup as desired.
Turner, Roger Newman The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide (1988)
Stir to dissolve sugar then bring the syrup to the boil.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
You may find it easier to measure the molasses and syrup in tablespoons.
Bennett, Carol Asthma and Eczema - special diet cookbook (1989)
Strain the spiced syrup into a fruit bowl.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
By then the liquid should be reduced to a thicker syrup.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
What is it that the cough syrup does?
Goshgarian, Gary Exploring language (6th edn) (1995)
You can also substitute corn syrup for oil.
Kowalski, Robert E The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure (1990)
Remove the sugar syrup from the heat and drop in the tomato petals.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Slice them thinly and arrange the slices overlapping on top of the golden syrup.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Heat to dissolve the sugar and make a light syrup.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Honey and maple syrup are only marginally better.
Holford, Patrick The Family Nutrition Workbook (1988)
Bring up the temperature and bring the sugar syrup to the boil.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
We use maple syrup, which is delicious.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Simmer for about 10 minutes to form syrup.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In one respect, the agreement is definitely not as sweet as maple syrup.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Add 1 tbsp of this syrup to your pancake batter and whisk again.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Bring to the boil and simmer for 4-5 minutes until it forms a clear syrup.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Pour over the maple syrup and lemon juice, and grind over the pepper.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Add the eggs, cocoa mixture and rice malt syrup to the sweet potatoes and mix well.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Dip the sponge biscuits in one half of the syrup and use them to line the base of a 25cm round pie tin.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Liquid supplements, although appealing, are usually in a sugary syrup and are therefore not ideal.
Holford, Patrick The Family Nutrition Workbook (1988)
Grease 8 individual ramekins with butter and drop 1 tbsp of the syrup mixture into the base of each.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In other languages
syrup
British English: syrup /ˈsɪrəp/ NOUN
Syrup is a sweet liquid made by cooking sugar with water or fruit juice.
Pour the cooled syrup over the fruit.
American English: syrup
Arabic: قَطْر
Brazilian Portuguese: xarope
Chinese: 糖浆
Croatian: sirup
Czech: sirup
Danish: sirup
Dutch: siroop
European Spanish: jarabe
Finnish: siirappi
French: sirop
German: Sirup
Greek: σιρόπι
Italian: sciroppo
Japanese: シロップ
Korean: 시럽
Norwegian: sirup
Polish: syrop
European Portuguese: xarope
Romanian: sirop
Russian: сироп
Latin American Spanish: jarabe
Swedish: sirap
Thai: น้ำเชื่อม
Turkish: şurup
Ukrainian: сироп
Vietnamese: nước xi-rô
All related terms of 'syrup'
corn syrup
syrup prepared from maize
cough syrup
Cough syrup is a liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
maple syrup
Maple syrup is a sweet, sticky , brown liquid made from the sap of maple trees , that can be eaten with pancakes or used to make desserts .
glucose syrup
a white crystalline monosaccharide sugar that has several optically active forms, the most abundant being dextrose : a major energy source in metabolism . Formula: C 6 H 12 O 6
golden syrup
Golden syrup is a sweet food in the form of a thick , sticky , yellow liquid .
rosehip syrup
a syrup made from rosehips , used as a cough remedy
simple syrup
a thick, sweet liquid, usually prepared from sugar and water and used chiefly as a base for soda fountain flavors
hydrogenated glucose syrup
a syrup produced by the incomplete hydrolysis of starch followed by the hydrogenation of the glucose syrup, and used as a sweetener in confectionery , etc