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confectionery

confectionery

1 3.2
To make sweets and cakes as a job
  • noun
  • /kənˈfɛkʃənəri/
translation icon : confitería
  • She dreams of opening her own confectionery where she can create chocolates and candies.
  • confectionery business

Examples

  • The local confectionery offers a wide variety of sweets, from gummy bears to chocolate truffles.

  • PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): The art of Victorian confectionery may have reached its high-water mark with the wedding cake created for the 1871 wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter, Princess Louise.

    Academic text (1993)

  • I am currently the GM of a confectionery arts school in Toronto and have been working in a culinary/food-related environment for the past 6 years.

    Blog text (11)

  • Babe Gamer ran a confectionery in the basement with seven girls making candy and packing it to mail all around the world.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The Lotte Confectionery company is so big that it has its own theme park and water park, and you can visit Lotte World in South Korea.

  • After visiting the confectionery, they couldn't resist buying some delicious handmade fudge.

Synonyms

candymaking
vsconfectionery
  • US
3.3

The activity of making sweets such as chocolate and hard candy

refers to the occupation or business rather than the making process

Surface Forms

confectionery singular
confectioneries plural

Morphology

confectionery = confection (transparent) = confection + ery

Formed from 'confection' (a sweet) + '-ery', a regular suffix for a place/industry, so the meaning 'business or industry of making sweets' is predictable.

Etymology

Confectionery comes from Latin parts con- 'together' and ficere 'to make', so it originally meant things 'made together'. That's why confectionery can mean the craft or business of making sweets.