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confectioner

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,664 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: confectioners

A confectioner is somebody who makes and sells sweets. The local confectioner, a confectioner's shop, trained as a confectioner.

Confectioner's sugar is the American name for what Britain calls icing sugar, which is the word's commonest appearance now. The trade covers chocolate, sugar work and preserved fruit.

Hansgustavsson · Public domain

Definitions of confectioner

  1. 1nounconfectionerSomebody who makes and sells sweets.B2+

    “The confectioner's window was full of chocolates, toffees and sugared almonds.”

confectioner is a maker.

Where it comes from

From confection, from Latin conficere, to put together, plus -er.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *dʰeh₁-

  2. Latin

    confectio

  3. Old French

    confeccion

  4. Middle English

    confescioun

  5. English

    confection

  6. English, today

    confectioner

Built from

  • cōnficiō · Latin — prepare
  • con- · Latin — with
  • faciō · Latin — to make, do

From confection + er. confection comes from Middle English confescioun, borrowed from Old French confeccion (French confection), borrowed from Latin confectio, 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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

Practise this word

confectioner in the wild

  • The occupation of confectioner encompasses the categories of cooking performed by both the French patissier (pastry chef) and the confiseur (sugar worker).

    Confectionery

  • Lacta is a series of Greek chocolate products created in 1962 by the Pavlidis confectioner, founded in 1841, in Athens, Greece.

    Lacta (Greek company)

  • Thomas Smith was a British baker and confectioner who is traditionally described as the inventor of the Christmas cracker, in 1847.

    Tom Smith (confectioner)

  • Although her book stated she was the confectioner to King William and Queen Anne, there is no record of her in the accounts of the royal household.

    Mary Eales

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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