confectionery

English

Alternative forms

• confectionary (archaic or dated)

Etymology

From 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.

Usage notes

This gingerbread house combines flour confectionery (the walls and roof, which are made of cookies) with sugar confectionery (e.g., gumdrops).

Confectionery is divided into two subtypes: flour confectionery, which includes pastries, cakes, and sweet baked goods (but not ordinary bread), and sugar confectionery, which includes hard candies, chocolates, and sometimes ice cream. In British English, confectionery without any further descriptor primarily refers to sugar confectionery. In American English, it usually refers to flour confectionery.

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)

Derived terms

• nonconfectionery

 

Related terms

• confect
• confection
• confectionary
• confectioner

Translations

sweet foodstuffs (collectively)

• Albanian: ëmbëltore (sq) f
• Armenian: հրուշակեղեն (hy) (hrušakeġen), քաղցրավենիք (hy) (kʻaġcʻravenikʻ)
• 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), konfekt c, konfekture c
• 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, Confiserie f (Switzerland)
• Greek: γλυκά (el) n pl (glyká), ζαχαρωτά (el) n pl (zacharotá)
• Haitian Creole: sirèt
• Hindi: कैंडी f (kaiṇḍī)
• Indonesian: permen (id), gula-gula (id)
• 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
• Yiddish: זיסוואַרג n (zisvarg), גוטע־זאַכן pl (gute-zakhn), נאַשעכץ n (nashekhts), מטעמים pl (matamim), קאָנפֿעקטור f (konfektur), ממתּקים pl (mamtakim)

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
• German: Confiserie f (Switzerland)
• 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