English

Adjective

confectionary ‎(not comparable)

1. Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.

   confectionary wares

2. Prepared as a confection.
   • 1798, William Cowper, On Receipt of My Mother's Picture, line 60

     Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, / The biscuit, or confectionary plum;

Translations

Noun

confectionary ‎(plural confectionaries)

1. A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
   • 1787, Miss Tully, “February 10, 1787”, in Letters Written During a Ten Years' Residence at the Court of Tripoli, published 1819, page 285:

     After the dishes of meat were removed, a dessert of Arabian fruits, confectionaries and sweetmeats was served: among the latter was the date bread.

2. (obsolete) A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
3. (dated) A confectioner's shop; a confectionery.
   • 1986, Penny Hayes, The Long Trail, ISBN 0930044762, page 184:

     They stopped at a confectionary where Blanche experienced her first ice cream.

4. (obsolete) One who makes confections; a confectioner.

   He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks. -- 1 Samuel viii. 13.

5. (uncountable, rare) Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery.

Related terms

• confect
• confection
• confectionery
• confectioner

References

• confectionary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913