Word Meanings - CONFECTIONARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A confectioner. He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks. 1 Sam. viii. 13.

Related words: (words related to CONFECTIONARY)

• COOKSHOP
  An eating house. "A subterranean cookshop." Macaulay.
• CONFECTIONER
  1. A compounder. Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents. Haywood. 2. One whose occupation it is to make or sell confections, candies, etc.
• CONFECTIONERY
  1. Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies. 2. A place where candies, sweetmeats, and similar things are made or sold.
• CONFECTIONERS' SUGAR
  A highly refined sugar in impalpable powder, esp. suited to confectioners' uses.