Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A confectioner's shop; a confectionery.
- n. Sweet preparations; confections.
- n. Obsolete A confectioner.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of the nature of, or prepared as, a confection; prepared or preserved with sugar.
- n. A confectioner.
- n. A room in which confections are kept or made.
- n. A confectioner's shop. See confectionery.
- n. A drug-shop, or place where medicines are compounded.
Wiktionary
- adj. Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.
- adj. Prepared as a confection.
- n. A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
- n. obsolete A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
- n. dated A confectioner's shop; a confectionery.
- n. obsolete One who makes confections; a confectioner.
- n. uncountable, rare Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A confectioner.
- adj. Prepared as a confection.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a confectioner's shop
Etymologies
- From Late Latin cōnfectiōnārius ("one who prepares things by means of ingredients"), from Latin cōnfectiō ("preparing, producing"). See confection. (Wiktionary)
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