Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Candies and other confections considered as a group.
- n. The skill or occupation of a confectioner.
- n. A confectioner's shop.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A place where sweetmeats and similar things are made or sold; a confectioner's shop.
- n. Collectively, sweetmeats; things prepared or sold by a confectioner: confections.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.
- n. uncountable The business or occupation of manufacturing confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner.
- n. A store where confectionery is sold; a confectioner's shop.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.
- n. A place where candies, sweetmeats, and similar things are made or sold.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the occupation and skills of a confectioner
- n. a confectioner's shop
- n. candy and other sweets considered collectively
Examples
“Lactose consumption in confectionery industry is projected to register a CAGR [Compound Annual Growth Rate] of over 4% through 2010.”
“Opportunities for private label confectionery formulations are set to rise as food inflation starts to pinch the consumer purse.”
“The proprietor of the confectionery was a benevolent old man with”
“As if shut up in a cage, I stand among the high houses, which I now know by heart, with their inscriptions, signs, and placards; all the painted confectionery, that is no longer to my taste.”
“Sarah Pickin, 23, spotted the ancient piece of "confectionery" during a dig in north-west Finland, but had to check with colleagues whether her hunch was correct or if it was in fact a fossilised piece of animal dung.”
“She wasn't a glutton in the ordinary sense, but her pleasure in food was voluptuous, especially in dainties like sugared seeds of various kinds, and every kind of confectionery, which seemed to have no effect on her figure.”
“The types of small-scale equipment for filling solid foods such as confectionery and dried foods is somewhat limited.”
“They can be manually operated or semi-automatic and are ideally suited to small items such as confectionery, dried fruit pieces, nuts, etc.”
“They had their own food, which seemed to consist of dark-looking bread, dried fish, black coffee and a kind of confectionery which looked like congealed soapsuds with raisins and almonds in it.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876
“The confectionery is a Tinseltown staple, and even provided the goodies for Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s wedding in 2004.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘confectionery’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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confectionary
lollies sweets
caramel gets 48 hits
chocolate gets 112 hits
nonpareil 83 hitstaffy, alcorza, chew, chocolate, confectionary, lolly, sweets, blackball, bonbon, brickle, bubblegum, cachou and 137 more...
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HU Realia
Cultural realia from Hungary.
I have only included realia that already have an English spelling variant and DID NOT include Hungarian words that would be used in English texts unchang...charcoal kiln, embroidered felt ..., farmstead, golden stick, graft, herdsman’s whip, inn, lever well, limekiln, local border traffic, maypole, merino and 356 more...
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TECH - department store terms
lift, flask, datum, cater, absorbable, access road, account book, acoustic, adding machine, adhesive, advisory service, aeration and 231 more...
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British English that's not in America...
British English that's not in American English
dummy, ta, answerphone, first fifteen soccer, first eleven cricket, shirty, fag, Black Monday, filter coffee, woolyback, motoring, loo and 20 more...
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Collections
Have I made this list before? Has someone else collected these words together? I can't remember, so I'm just going to start storing some things here.
collection, omnium-gatherum, sylloge, antiphonary, anthology, bestiary, cartulary, dossier, sampler, assortment, variety, hodgepodge and 65 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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Words I like
There's nothing more to this list, really.
lily, defenestrate, gloaming, aesthetically, melody, translucent, semiotics, wistful, linear, origami, plethora, schadenfreude and 92 more...
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A Place for Everything
spicery, creamery, perfumery, confectionery, bakery, fishery, chandlery, beanery, grocery, ashery, haberdashery, carvery and 54 more...
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