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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A confectioner's shop; a confectionery.
  • noun Sweet preparations; confections.
  • noun Obsolete A confectioner.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the nature of, or prepared as, a confection; prepared or preserved with sugar.
  • noun A confectioner.
  • noun A room in which confections are kept or made.
  • noun A confectioner's shop. See confectionery.
  • noun A drug-shop, or place where medicines are compounded.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A confectioner.
  • adjective Prepared as a confection.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.
  • adjective Prepared as a confection.
  • noun A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
  • noun obsolete A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
  • noun dated A confectioner's shop; a confectionery.
  • noun obsolete One who makes confections; a confectioner.
  • noun uncountable, rare Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a confectioner's shop

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Late Latin cōnfectiōnārius ("one who prepares things by means of ingredients"), from Latin cōnfectiō ("preparing, producing"). See confection.

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