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Definition: CONFECTIONARY |
CONFECTIONARYAdjective1. Prepared as a confection. Noun1. A confectioner. |
Date "CONFECTIONARY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1607. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of impure confectionary, denotes that an enemy in the guise of a friend will enter your privacy and discover secrets of moment to your opponents. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sweetness | Sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose; maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai, sorghum, taffy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Germany | In 2000, U.S. total exports of confectionary sunflowers to Germany were valued at $27 million, out of a total import value of $49 million. (references) |
Russia | The market for edible nuts in Russia is developing, driven by both increases in consumer demand, which reflects the growing purchasing power of the Russian population, and rapidly increasing needs of the confectionary industry. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CONFECTIONARY" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CONFECTIONARY" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| South Korea | Haitai Confectionary |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "CONFECTIONARY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Konditorwaren (cakes and pastries). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | μ κ³Ό (Confectionaries, Confectionery). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | onfectionarycay ΠΊΠΎΠ½Π΄ΠΈΡΠ΅ΡΡΠΊΠ°Ρ;ΠΊΠΎΠ½Π΄ΠΈΡΠ΅ΡΡΠΊΠΈΠ΅ ΠΈΠ·Π΄Π΅Π»ΠΈΡ ΠΊΠΎΠ½Π΄ΠΈΡΠ΅ΡΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ, ΠΊΠΎΠ½Π΄ΠΈΡΠ΅ΡΡΠΊΠ°Ρ (confectionery, pastry shop, sweet-shop, tuck-shop), ΠΊΠΎΠ½Π΄ΠΈΡΠ΅ΡΡΠΊΠΈΠ΅ ΠΈΠ·Π΄Π΅Π»ΠΈΡ (confection, confectionery, pastry). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CONFECTIONARY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Confectioneri, conventionary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CONFECTIONARY" (pronounced kunfe"kshune'rē) |
| 12 | k u n f e" k sh u n e' r ē | confectionery. |
| 7 | -k sh u n e' r ē | dictionary, functionary, reactionary. |
| 6 | -sh u n e' r ē | cautionary, concessionary, counterrevolutionary, deflationary, discretionary, disinflationary, evolutionary, expansionary, expeditionary, inflationary, missionary, noninflationary, probationary, recessionary, revolutionary, stationary, stationery. |
| 5 | -u n e' r ē | bicentenary, cardiopulmonary, centenary, coronary, culinary, disciplinary, diversionary, exclusionary, extraordinary, illusionary, imaginary, interdisciplinary, luminary, mercenary, ordinary, preliminary, pulmonary, seminary, urinary, veterinary, visionary. |
| 4 | -n e' r ē | quaternary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, capillary, Cassowary, cemetery, cometary, commentary, commissary, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, cranberry, customary, depositary, Dewberry, dietary, dignitary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, fiduciary, formulary, fragmentary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, interplanetary, involuntary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, military, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, nonmilitary, obituary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, primary, proprietary, raspberry, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, solitary, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, vocabulary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-f-i-n-n-o-o-r-t-y" | |
-3 letters: concertina, concertino, concretion, confection, oceanfront. | |
-4 letters: accretion, afternoon, ancientry, anorectic, cofinance, confiteor, connector, container, crenation, fornicate, nonerotic, nonfactor. | |
-5 letters: accentor, acentric, acetonic, anointer, anoretic, cartoony, caryotin, coaction, cocinera, coercion, cofactor, conation, concerti, concerto, confiner, confront, cornetcy, coronate, cratonic, creation, crocoite, cyanotic, enactory, feracity, ferocity, footrace, fraction, infantry, infector, narcotic, necrotic, nonactor, octonary, reaction. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Company Usage 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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