Confectionary

Quick meaning: Confectionary is an adjective meaning Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.

Meaning

Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.

More Meanings

1. Prepared as a confection.
2. A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
3. Dated form of confectionery (“a confectioner's shop”).
4. (uncountable) Archaic form of confectionery (“candy, sweets, taken collectively”).
5. (obsolete) A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
6. (obsolete) One who makes confections; a confectioner.

Example Sentences

confectionary wares

Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, / The biscuit, or confectionary plum;

They stopped at a confectionary where Blanche experienced her first ice cream.

He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks. -- 1 Samuel viii. 13.

Word Forms

• confectionaries

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include confectionery, confection, candy, factory, condimental, concoctive.

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