Thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining.

Roget 396: sweetness, dulcitude^†.    sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture^†, jam, julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose; maple sirup^†, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai^†, sorghum, taffy.    nectar; hydromel^†, mead, meade^†, metheglin^†, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine, aperitif.    [sources of sugar] sugar cane, sugar beets.    [sweet foods] desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff, pudding (food) 298.    dulcification^†, dulcoration^†.    sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar, dextrose; artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, Sweet'N Low.    ... show more

Dutch: molasse, melasse
Polish: melasa