confectionery

English

Alternative forms

• confectionary (archaic or dated)

Etymology

confection +‎ -ery

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈfɛkʃənəɹi/, /kənˈfɛkʃənɹi/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

confectionery (usually uncountable, plural confectioneries)

1. (uncountable) Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.
2. (uncountable) The business or occupation of manufacturing confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner.
3. A store where confectionery is sold; a confectioner's shop.

Synonyms

• (sweet foodstuffs, collectively): candy (US), sweets (UK)
• (business of manufacturing confectionery): sweet-making, sweet manufacture
• (shop where confectionery is sold): confectioner's, candy store (US), sweet shop (UK)

Related terms

• confect
• confection
• confectionary
• confectioner

Translations

sweet foodstuffs (collectively)

• Albanian: ëmbëltore (sq) f
• Armenian: հրուշակեղեն (hy) (hrušakeġen), քաղցրավենիք (hy) (kʿaġcʿravenikʿ)
• Azerbaijani: şirniyat
• Belarusian: прысмакі m pl (prysmaki)
• Bulgarian: сладкиши (bg) pl (sladkiši)
• Cebuano: kendi
• Cherokee: ᎧᎵᏎᏥ (kalisetsi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 糖果 (zh) (tángguǒ)

• Danish: slik (da)
• Dutch: snoep (nl) m
• Finnish: konditoriatuotteet
• French: confiserie (fr) f, sucreries (fr) f pl
• Georgian: საკონდიტრო (saḳondiṭro)
• German: Konfekt (de) n, Süßwaren (de) f pl
• Greek: γλυκά (el) n pl (glyká), ζαχαρωτά (el) n pl (zacharotá)
• Haitian Creole: sirèt
• Hindi: कैंडी f (kaiṇḍī)
• Irish: milseogra f, sócamais m pl, rudaí milse m pl
• Italian: dolciumi (it) m pl
• Japanese: お菓子 (ja) (おかし, okashi)
• Kannada: ಮಿಠಾಯಿ (kn) (miṭhāyi)
• Korean: 과자(菓子) (ko) (gwaja)
• Latin: cuppēdia n pl, bellāria n pl
• Latvian: saldumi m pl
• Macedonian: сла́тки n pl (slátki)
• Malagasy: fanaovan-javamamy
• Malay: gula-gula (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konfekt m

  Nynorsk: konfekt m

• O'odham: lu꞉lsi
• Pashto: کینډی‎
• Polish: słodycze (pl) pl
• Portuguese: doces (pt), confeitaria (pt) f
• Russian: конди́терские изде́лия n pl (kondíterskije izdélija), сла́дости (ru) f pl (sládosti)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: посластичарница f

  Roman: poslastičarnica (sh) f

• Spanish: dulces (es)
• Tagalog: kendi
• Tamil: மிட்டாய் (ta) (miṭṭāy)
• Telugu: మిఠాయి (te) (miṭhāyi)
• Uzbek: qandolat mahsulotlari
• West Frisian: snobberij

business of manufacturing confectionery

• Bulgarian: сладкарство n (sladkarstvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甜品廠／甜品厂 (tiánpǐnchǎng)

• French: confiserie (fr) f
• Galician: repostaría (gl) f, confeitaría f
• Greek: ζαχαροπλαστείο (el) n (zacharoplasteío)
• Hungarian: cukrászda (hu)
• Polish: cukiernictwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: confeitaria (pt) f
• Russian: конди́терская фа́брика f (kondíterskaja fábrika)
• Spanish: confitería (es) f
• Swedish: sockerbageri n

shop where confectionery is sold — see sweetshop