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Definition: Confectionery |
ConfectioneryNoun1. A food rich in sugar. 2. A confectioner's shop. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "confectionery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: ConfectionerySynonyms: candy store (n), confection (n), sweet (n), tuck shop (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Mart | Grocery, supermarket, candy store, sweet shop, confectionery, bakery, greengrocer, delicatessen, bakeshop, butcher shop, fish store, farmers' market, mom and pop store, dairy, health food store. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Confectionery |
| English words defined with "confectionery": Cimbal, Crocus sativus ♦ jordan almond ♦ passion fruit, Pulpatoon ♦ sweet cicely ♦ tartaric acid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "confectionery": banket ♦ CONFECTIONERY-DROPS-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ decorator, hand ♦ ingredient mixer, INGREDIENT SCALER. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Underwood's Mission Confectionery, Riverside, Ca. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | The confectionery industry is one of the most attractive and profitable sectors, with a profit margin higher than the average of the entire food processing industry. (references) | |
Economic History | Hungary | Hungary has well-developed sweets, confectionery and bakery industries. (references) |
Greece | Almond imports are primarily used by the confectionery and chocolate industries. (references) | |
Kenya | There is also considerable potential for the expansion of chocolate and confectionery products. (references) | |
Political Economy | Moldova | The centrist Braghis Alliance of former Prime Minister Dumitru Braghis won 15 seats, while the rightist Christian Democratic Popular Party the remaining 11. The Parliament voted in a new government headed by Vasile Tarlev, manager of Moldova's biggest confectionery factory Bucuria. (references) |
Trade | Poland | For some luxury and strategic products (e.g. alcohol, cosmetics, cigarettes, sugar confectionery, video cameras, satellite antennas, passenger cars, gasoline, and oil) an excise tax is also applied. (references) |
Philippines | Category I includes: bakery & bakery related products; non-alcoholic beverages & beverage mixes; candies & confectionery products; cocoa & cocoa related products; coffee, tea & non-dairy creamer; condiments, sauces & seasonings; culinary products; gelatin, dessert preparation & mixes; dairy products; dressings & spreads; flour/flour mixes & starch; fish & other marine products; fruits, vegetable & edible fungi (prepared); meat and poultry products (prepared); noodles, pastas & pastry wrapper; nut & nut products; native delicacies; oils, fats & shortening; snack foods & breakfast cereals and; sugar & other related products. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Saint Lucia | Children also typically work in urban food stalls or sell confectionery on sidewalks. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Confectionery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Confectionery" is used about 106 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 106 | 31,637 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Imuraya Confectionery Co., Ltd | South Korea | Crown Confectionery Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "confectionery": sweetmeats or confectionery. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "confectionery": confectionery-loving. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 "confectionery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ëmbëltore (sweet-shop), ëmbëlsira (lollipops, sock, sweetmeats, sweet-stuff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حلويات (candy, confections, confetti, pastry, sweetmeats), صناعة الحلويات, دكان الحلواني. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сладкарски и захарни изделия, сладкарница (pastry shop, sweet-shop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catalan | pastisseria. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | cukrovinky, cukroví (confection, confiture, cookies, sweetmeat, sweets), cukrářské výrobky. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | konditori. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | koekbakkerý, banketbakkerý. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kukbakejo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | makeiset (candy, sweets). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | confiserie, pâtisserie (confectioner's, confectioner's shop, confectionery shop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zuckerware, Feinbäckerei. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γλυκίσματα (goodies), ζαχαρωτά, ζαχαροπλαστική (pastry making), ζαχαροπλαστείο (cake shop, patisserie, sweet shop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ממתקים, מ'" י" (pastry shop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sütemény (cake, pastry), cukrászda (café, coffee-house, pastry shop, patisserie, sweet-shop), cukrászsütemény (cake, pastry), cukrászat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | confetteria, pasticceria (confectioner's shop, confectionery shop, pastry making, pastry shop), dolci (cakes, desserts, sweets). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 製" , コン"ュータ"語 (combo, comfrey, competition, complement, complete, completion, complex, compliance, compliment, component, component stereo, component type, composer, composite, composite index, composition, compost, compote, compress, compressor, computation, computer communication, computerese, computing, computopia, computopolis, con brio, confection, conference, confession, configuration, conflict, conform, conformism, convention, convention bureau, convention center, convention hall, conventional, conveyor, conveyor system, convoy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいか (chant, essence, fame, flower, flower arrangement, fresh flowers, fruitand vegetables, fruits, glory, governing one's family, height of summer, home, hymn, influential family, lower abdomen, metallic currency, midsummer, net price, regular curriculum, regular price, reputation, request for leave of absence, required subject, results, sacred fire, sacred song, shoe-making, specie, the man in power, vacation request), コンフェクショナリー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 과 (Confectionaries, Confectionary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | miljeydys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | konditori. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onfectionerycay confeitaria (candy shop, candy store), doces (candies, pastry, sweetmeats, sweet-shop, sweet-stuff, tuck), doceria (sweet-shop), doce (bland, candy, comfit, confection, dulcet, gentle, honeyed, junket, kiss, mellifluent, mellifluous, mild, nicy, polite, soft, sugar, sugary, sweet, tender). (various references) cofeturi (sweetmeats, sweets), cofetãrie (pastry, sweetshop), dulciuri (confection, dainty, sweets), bomboanã (comfit, drop, Goody, suck, sweet, sweetmeat, sweety). (various references) кондитерская (confectionary, pastry shop, sweet-shop, tuck-shop), кондитерские изделия (confection, confectionary, pastry). (various references) poslastice (sweet-stuff), poslastičarnica (pastry shop). (various references) pastelería (bakery, pastry shop), confitería (candy shop). (various references) konditori (café, confectioners, confectioner's, patisserie, tea-room, tea-shop). (various references) tatlıcılık, pastane (patisserie, sweetshop, tuckshop), pastalar, pasta (cake, pastry, sweetmeat), şekerleme (boiled sweet, bonbon, butterscotch, candy, catnap, confection, doze, fondant, forty winks, fourty winks, goodies, kip, kiss, lay down, lie down, nap, snooze, sugar candy, sugarplum, sweetie, sweeties, sweetmeat, sweets, sweety, taffy, toffee, toffy), şekercilik. (various references) кондитерські вироби (pastry), кондитерська, кондитерський, майстерність кондитера. (various references) mứt (confection, sweet, sweetmeat), kẹo cửa h ng mứt kẹo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | crustula, crustulum. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Confectionery" 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 "confectionery" (pronounced kunfe"kshune'rē) |
| 12 | k u n f e" k sh u n e' r ē | confectionary. |
| 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 "c-c-e-e-f-i-n-n-o-o-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: confectioner. | |
-3 letters: concertino, concretion, confection. | |
-4 letters: coenocyte, concenter, confiteor, connecter, connector, nonerotic, reconnect, refection, renitency, reticency. | |
-5 letters: cicerone, coercion, concerti, concerto, concrete, confiner, confront, cornetcy, cretonne, croceine, crocoite, erection, ferocity, frenetic, incenter, infecter, infector, necrotic, neotenic, neoteric, reinfect, renotify, rotenone. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Company Usage | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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