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• can‧dle [countable]
• 1 a stick of wax with a string through the middle, which you burn to give light
• 2
• can't hold a candle to somebody/something
• informal if something or someone cannot hold a candle to something or someone else, they are not as good as the other thing or person:
• No other singer can hold a candle to her.
• ➔ burn the candle at both ends
• at burn1 (19)

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.