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# confectionery

noun (confectionery, uncountable)

«confectionery» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Confectionery is sweets, chocolates and similar sugary foods. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confectionery/#m1)
2. (formal) A confectionery is a shop or factory that makes or sells sweets and cakes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confectionery/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and shops, «confectionery» is the formal word for sweets; supermarket aisles have a confectionery section. In health lessons, pupils learn to limit confectionery for their teeth. In the USA people say «candy».

### Examples

- The shop has a big confectionery counter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confectionery/#x1)
- Too much confectionery is bad for your teeth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confectionery/#x2)
- The factory makes chocolate and other confectionery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confectionery/#x3)
- Grandad worked in a confectionery for years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confectionery/#x4)
- Confectionery is on aisle seven. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confectionery/#x5)
- The school banned confectionery in lunch boxes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confectionery/#x6)
- Meanwhile the seven Queens lived luxuriously in a splendid palace, attended by hundreds of female slaves, and fed to their hearts' content on sweetmeats and confectionery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confectionery/#x7)

### Note

Uncountable. Spelled «-ery» with «e» (not «confectionary», though that spelling is also seen). A person who makes sweets is a «confectioner». «Confectioners' sugar» (USA) = icing sugar.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «confectionery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confectionery/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«confectionery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/confectionery.html) on Mova free.