"caramelization" meaning in English

See caramelization in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: caramelizations [plural], caramelisation [alternative]
Etymology: From caramel + -ization. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|caramel|ization}} caramel + -ization Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} caramelization (countable and uncountable, plural caramelizations)
  1. (cooking) The process that converts sugars into caramel; the process of caramelizing. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cooking
    Sense id: en-caramelization-en-noun-fsAdoeCt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ization, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 79 21 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ization: 72 28 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 82 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9 Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
  2. (cooking) The browning of sugars by heat. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cooking
    Sense id: en-caramelization-en-noun-ftnkqDJp Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "caramel",
        "3": "ization"
      },
      "expansion": "caramel + -ization",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From caramel + -ization.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caramelizations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caramelisation",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "caramelization (countable and uncountable, plural caramelizations)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cooking",
          "orig": "en:Cooking",
          "parents": [
            "Food and drink",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "79 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "72 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ization",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The process that converts sugars into caramel; the process of caramelizing."
      ],
      "id": "en-caramelization-en-noun-fsAdoeCt",
      "links": [
        [
          "cooking",
          "cooking#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "caramel",
          "caramel"
        ],
        [
          "caramelizing",
          "caramelizing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cooking) The process that converts sugars into caramel; the process of caramelizing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "cooking",
        "food",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cooking",
          "orig": "en:Cooking",
          "parents": [
            "Food and drink",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              37,
              51
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Slowly cooking the onions will cause caramelization which will bring out the sweetness and give them a brown color.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The browning of sugars by heat."
      ],
      "id": "en-caramelization-en-noun-ftnkqDJp",
      "links": [
        [
          "cooking",
          "cooking#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "browning",
          "browning"
        ],
        [
          "sugars",
          "sugars"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cooking) The browning of sugars by heat."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "cooking",
        "food",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "caramelization"
  ],
  "word": "caramelization"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ization",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "caramel",
        "3": "ization"
      },
      "expansion": "caramel + -ization",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From caramel + -ization.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caramelizations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caramelisation",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "caramelization (countable and uncountable, plural caramelizations)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Cooking"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The process that converts sugars into caramel; the process of caramelizing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cooking",
          "cooking#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "caramel",
          "caramel"
        ],
        [
          "caramelizing",
          "caramelizing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cooking) The process that converts sugars into caramel; the process of caramelizing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "cooking",
        "food",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Cooking"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              37,
              51
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Slowly cooking the onions will cause caramelization which will bring out the sweetness and give them a brown color.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The browning of sugars by heat."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cooking",
          "cooking#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "browning",
          "browning"
        ],
        [
          "sugars",
          "sugars"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cooking) The browning of sugars by heat."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "cooking",
        "food",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "caramelization"
  ],
  "word": "caramelization"
}

Download raw JSONL data for caramelization meaning in English (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (74c5344 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.