confectionary
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3.2
- noun
- /kənˈfɛkʃənəri/
- US
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confitería
- The same city of Naderi Cafe and Ferdowsi Confectionary, with the Monsieur with the long moustache?
Examples
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I assure you, the confectionary is top shelf, imported for the Wilds of the Netherlands.
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I was hoping to find something a bit more useful than confectionary.
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So let us pray, to Jesus, please, and make it a bit easier to get through those doors, uh, to find you and your bounty of delicious confectionary.
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They're in the middle of a recipe and they run out of confectionary sugar or vanilla or something like that—boom—so they run down here and grab it.
Academic text (2018) -
Rather than a confectionary delight, the pie crust (think cement) was used to seal in the juices for a moister repast.
Blog text (5) -
On her birthday, she visited the local confectionary to buy a variety of delicious chocolates and candies.
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The small town's confectionary offered a selection of homemade sweets that attracted customers from nearby areas.
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After school, the children raced to the confectionary to buy their favorite gummies and lollipops.
Synonyms
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1.0
A shop that sells candy and other sweets
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4.1
A person or company that makes and sells sweets like chocolate and candy
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4.8
A person or shop that makes and sells chocolate treats
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3.9
A shop that sells sweets and chocolate
Surface Forms
Morphology
confectionary = confection (semi-transparent) = confection + ary
The word is built from 'confection' plus a related adjectival/noun-forming suffix, but the specific shop sense is somewhat lexicalized rather than fully predictable.
Etymology
Confectionary comes from Latin parts that mean 'together' and 'to make': con- 'together' and facere 'to make'. Because sweets are made by mixing and preparing ingredients into little treats, a confectionary is simply a place where those made sweets are sold, which is why it means a shop for sweets and chocolates.