confetti
Syllables: con·fet·ti/kənˈfɛ.ti/
confetti noun: small pieces or strips (streamers) of colored paper or other material (metal, plaster, etc.) generally thrown about at festive occasions, especially at weddings and in victory celebrations.
Noun
confetti (uncountable)
- Small pieces or strips (streamers) of colored paper or other material (metal, plaster, etc.) generally thrown about at festive occasions, especially at weddings and in victory celebrations.
- Edible Italian sugarcoated almonds, especially those which are used as part of a traditional Italian wedding.
- … a pale and fair devotee of fashion who has left off eating confetti, and recovered her bloom.1870, Henry T. Tuckerman, in the Boston Transcript, quoted in The New York Observer Yearbook and Almanac, page 143
- "Why, if you and Teresa, our own best man and maid of honor . . . oh, how wonderful that would be, to eat confetti at your wedding!"1959, Loren Wahl, Lorenzo Madalena, Confetti for Gino
Verb
confetti (third-person singular simple present confettis, present participle confettiing, simple past and past participle confettied)
- To scatter with confetti.
confetti meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
confetti in Hindi
- small pieces of colored paper generally thrown about at festive occasions
- कन्फ़ेटी kanfeṭī
confetti in Tamil
- கான்ஃபெட்டி, கான்பெட்டி, கான்ஃபெடி
confetti in Marathi
- कॉन्फेटी, कॉनफेटी, कॉन्फेटीला
confetti in Urdu
- کنفیٹی, کونفیٹی, کانفیٹی
More languagesFewer languages
- confetti in Bengali
- কনফেটি
- confetti in Telugu
- కాన్ఫెట్టీ, కాన్ఫెట్టి, కాన్ఫెటీ
- confetti in Malayalam
- കോൺഫെറ്റി, കൺഫെറ്റി, കോൺഫറ്റി
- confetti in Kannada
- ಕಾನ್ಫೆಟಿ, ಕಾನ್ಫೆಟ್ಟಿ
- confetti in Punjabi
- ਕਨਫੈਟੀ, ਕਾਨਫੈਟੀ, ਕੌਨਫੈਟੀ
- confetti in Gujarati
- કોન્ફેટી, કોન્ફેટ્ટી, કૉન્ફેટી
- confetti in Odia
- କନଫେଟି, କନ୍ଫେଟି, କାନ୍ଫେଟି
- confetti in Nepali
- कन्फेटी, कन्फेट्टी, कोन्फेटी
- confetti in Tagalog
- kumpitis
- confetti in Arabic
- نِثَار niṯār
- confetti in Indonesian
- konfeti
- confetti in Thai
- ลูกปา lûuk bpaa
- confetti in Vietnamese
- công-phét-ti, hoa giấy
Examples of confetti in a sentence
- He can already smell the anthuria and imagine the confetti of butterfly wings on his cheeks.
- They passed undulating fields of wheat speckled with the confetti of poppies and bluets.
- I'll tell Pintsize to decock the confetti cannon."
Forms of confetti
| third-person singular present | confettis |
|---|---|
| present participle | confettiing |
| past participle | confettied |
| past | confettied |
Origin of confetti
Borrowed (possibly via French) from Italian confetti (literally “confections”), used to describe sugar-coated almonds, and by extension things imitating them (like pellets of plaster), which were thrown in Italy during festivities like Carnival and weddings. (This practice is mentioned in English since at least the 1810s.) The French and the English adopted the practice of celebrating weddings and other festivities by throwing such candies, or (by the late 1800s) tiny pieces of colored paper symbolizing them, partially displacing their earlier practice of throwing rice.
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Questions about confetti
- What does confetti mean?
- Confetti means small pieces or strips (streamers) of colored paper or other material (metal, plaster, etc.) generally thrown about at festive occasions, especially at weddings and in victory celebrations.
- What is confetti in Hindi?
- Confetti in Hindi is कन्फ़ेटी (kanfeṭī). See Confetti meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is confetti?
- Confetti can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce confetti?
- Confetti is pronounced /kənˈfɛ.ti/.
Words near confetti in the dictionary
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