marzipan

/ˌmɑːzɪˈpæn/US/ˈmɑɹzəpæn/

marzipan noun: a confection made from a paste of almonds, sugar and egg white as a binder.

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Noun

marzipan (usually uncountable, plural marzipans)

(usually) A confection made from a paste of almonds, sugar and egg white as a binder.
(usually) A similar confection made using another nut, such as peanut or hazelnut.
- Place the hazelnuts on a baking sheet and grill […] then grind finely […] then add the caster sugar and ground hazelnuts [to egg whites] and mix to a stiff marzipan paste. Sandwich the pecan nuts together in pairs with a little of the hazelnut marzipan.2009, Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Christmas Recipes: Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook, (Please provide the book title or journal name), Hamlyn, →ISBN
- Hazelnut marzipan. Hazelnuts are used as an alternative to almonds, ground together in a proportion from 11⁄2 to 2 parts nuts to sugar. Almonds may be mixed in according to taste.2015, The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 433
(countable, usually) A piece of such a confection.
- One afternoon not long afterwards you waited byher bedside as she swam through anesthetic. A box of cherry chocolates and a dozen roses in your lap. Cherry chocolates and chocolate-covered marzipans. Then you drove her home. Chocolate-covered marzipans being her favorite.2002, Lance Olsen, Girl Imagined by Chance, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 81
- In one hand she held a handkerchief, and in the other she held two cherry-shaped marzipans. Rosalia smiled when she saw the marzipans and took them and the handkerchief from Madre Carmela.2016, Rosanna Chiofalo, Rosalia's Bittersweet Pastry Shop, Kensington Books, →ISBN

Verb

marzipan (third-person singular simple present marzipans, present participle marzipanning, simple past and past participle marzipanned)

(transitive) To cover with marzipan.
- a marzipanned cake

marzipan meaning in Bengali, Gujarati, Tagalog and Arabic

marzipan in Tagalog

confection of almond paste, sugar and egg white: marsapan

marzipan in Arabic

confection of almond paste, sugar and egg white: مَرْصَبَان marṣabān

More languagesFewer languages

marzipan in Malay: marzipan
marzipan in Indonesian: marsepen, marzipan
marzipan in Persian: مارزیپان mârzepân

Forms of marzipan

Noun
plural	marzipans
alternative form (obsolete)	marchpane
Verb
third-person singular present	marzipans
present participle	marzipanning
past participle	marzipanned
past	marzipanned

Origin of marzipan

Borrowed from German Marzipan, from Italian marzapane, Venetan marzapane. Believed to be, with influence from pane (“bread”), derived from Arabic مَرْطَبَان (marṭabān, “spice box”) which comes from the name of a Burmese port known for its spice exports, Martaban, now called in Burmese မုတ္ထမ (muthta.ma.).

Words formed from marzipan

Phrases with marzipan

marzipan layers

Words that rhyme with marzipan

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Questions about marzipan

What does marzipan mean?: Marzipan means a confection made from a paste of almonds, sugar and egg white as a binder.
What is marzipan in Bengali?: Marzipan in Bengali is বাদামের গুঁড়া, চিনি. See Marzipan meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is marzipan?: Marzipan can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce marzipan?: Marzipan is pronounced /ˌmɑːzɪˈpæn/ (UK).
What is the plural of marzipan?: The plural of marzipan is marzipans.

Words near marzipan in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: marzipan (page history and authors); marzipan (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); બદામપૂરી (Gujarati) (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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