confection
/kənˈfɛkʃən/
confection noun: a food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
Noun
confection (plural confections)
- A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
- The table was covered with all sorts of tempting confections.
- Synonyms:
- confect
- The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
- The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
- The defense attorney maintained that the charges were a confection of the local police.
- An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.
- Something, such as a garment or a decoration, that is very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also impractical or non-utilitarian.
- Her gown was a marvelous confection of lace and tulle.
- She found a sexy, lacy confection in a lingerie drawer and quickly slipped into it.2007, Susan Sizemore, Primal Desires
- A medicinal preparation of any kind, a compound of drugs.
- A deadly poison.
- Was it not a goodly poison that he gave!
Why, he's as well now as he was before.
It shuld have been some fine confection
That might have given the broth some dainty taste2007, Unknown, edited by White, Martin and Lockwood, Tom, Arden of Faversham, 2nd edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 20, Scene 1, ll. 421–425
- Was it not a goodly poison that he gave!
Verb
confection (third-person singular simple present confections, present participle confectioning, simple past and past participle confectioned)
- To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.
confection meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada
confection in Tamil
- இனிப்பு இறைச்சி, இலேகியம், மருந்திட்டுபதப்படுத்திய
confection in Urdu
- مربہ سازی
confection in Bengali
- মিষ্টি, মিষ্টান্ন
confection in Kannada
- ಸಿಹಿತಿಂಡಿ, ಮಿಶ್ರಣ, ಬೆರೆಸಿ ತಯಾರಿಸಿರುವುದು, ಚೌಚೌ, ಬೆರೆಸಿ ತಯಾರಿಸಿದ ತಿಂಡಿ ತಿನಿಸು
More languagesFewer languages
- confection in Sanskrit
- गौड gauḍa
- confection in Tagalog
- matamis
- confection in Arabic
- حَلْوَى ḥalwā
- confection in Malay
- gula-gula
- confection in Indonesian
- olahan gula
Examples of confection in a sentence
- Yakgwa (“yak” means medicine and “gwa” means confection) is more than a vessel for coveted sweetness.
- These festive, fudgy confections are a mash-up of two traditional Jewish favorites: rugelach and chocolate babka.
- He has a weakness for these glutinous confections that are supposed to extend his life.
Synonyms of confection
Forms of confection
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | confections |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | confections |
| present participle | confectioning |
| past participle | confectioned |
| past | confectioned |
Origin of confection
From Middle English confescioun, borrowed from Old French confeccion (French confection), borrowed from Latin cōnfectiōnem, from cōnfectus, past participle of cōnficiō (“prepare”), from con- (“with”) + faciō (“to make, do”). By surface analysis, confect + -ion. Originally "the making by means of ingredients"; sense of "candy or light pastry" predominant since 1500s.
Words formed from confection
Questions about confection
- What does confection mean?
- Confection means a food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
- What is confection in Tamil?
- Confection in Tamil is இனிப்பு இறைச்சி, இலேகியம், மருந்திட்டுபதப்படுத்திய. See Confection meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is confection?
- Confection can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce confection?
- Confection is pronounced /kənˈfɛkʃən/.
- What is the plural of confection?
- The plural of confection is confections.
Words near confection in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: confection (page history and authors); confection (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); confection (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); confection (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); confection (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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