confectionery

«confectionery» in Mova's school dictionary: sweets, chocolates and similar sugary foods — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (confectionery, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Confectionery is sweets, chocolates and similar sugary foods. tree →

2) (formal) A confectionery is a shop or factory that makes or sells sweets and cakes. tree →

sense 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 →
• Too much confectionery is bad for your teeth. tree →
• The factory makes chocolate and other confectionery. tree →
• Grandad worked in a confectionery for years. tree →
• Confectionery is on aisle seven. tree →
• The school banned confectionery in lunch boxes. tree →
• 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 →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «confectionery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.