confectioner

English

The confectioner adds sugar decorations to this cake.

This chocolatier makes chocolate confections.

This confectioner sells chocolates.

Etymology

From confection (verb) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

confectioner (plural confectioners)

1. A manufacturer of or dealer in confections (sweets, candies, sweet pastries, and other sweet food items).

Synonyms

• confectionist (rare)

Derived terms

• confectioneress
• confectioner's cream
• confectioner's glaze
• confectioner's glucose

Related terms

• confect
• confection
• confectionary
• confectionery

Translations

manufacturer of or dealer in confections

• Arabic: حَلْوَانِيّ (ar) m (ḥalwāniyy)
• Armenian: հրուշակագործ (hy) (hrušakagorc)
• Bengali: হালুইকর (bn) (haluikor)
• Bulgarian: сладка́р m (sladkár)
• Catalan: confiter (ca) m, confitera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: cukrář (cs) m, cukrářka f
• Danish: konditor c
• Dutch: suikerbakker (nl) m, banketbakker (nl) m, koekenbakker (nl) m, taartenbakker (nl) m
• Estonian: kondiiter
• Finnish: kondiittori (fi), sokerileipuri (fi)
• French: confiseur (fr) m, confiseuse (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Konditor (de) m, Konditorin (de) f, Zuckerbäcker (de) m, Zuckerbäckerin (de) f
• Greek: ζαχαροπλάστης (el) m (zacharoplástis), ζαχαροπλάστρια (el) f (zacharoplástria)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: cukrász (hu), cukrásznő
• Irish: milsíneoir m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kalmyk: шикрч (şikrç)
• Kyrgyz: шекерчи (şekerci)
• Latin: crustulārius m, crustulāria f, cuppēdinārius m, cuppēdināria f, dulciārius m, dulciāria f, panchrestārius m, panchrestāria f
• Macedonian: слаткар m (slatkar), слаткарка f (slatkarka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konditor (no) m

  Nynorsk: konditor m

• Persian: قَنَّاد (fa) (qannâd)
• Polish: cukiernik (pl) m, cukierniczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: confeiteiro (pt) m, confeiteira (pt) f
• Romanian: cofetar (ro) m, cofetăreasă (ro) f
• Russian: кондитер (ru) m (konditer)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: посластичар m, сластичар m, сладичар m, цукербекер m

  Latin: poslastičar (sh) m, slastičar (sh) m, sladičar m, cukerbeker (sh) m

• Spanish: pastelero (es) m, pastelera (es) f, confitero (es) m, confitera (es) f, dulcero m, dulcera f
• Swedish: konditor (sv) c, sockerbagare (sv) c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: şekerci (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: شكرجی (şekerci), حلواجی (helvacı)