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Word Meanings - CONFECTIONER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A compounder. Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents. Haywood. 2. One whose occupation it is to make or sell confections, candies, etc.

Related words: (words related to CONFECTIONER)

  • WHOSESOEVER
    The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
  • OCCUPATION
    1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
  • COMPOUNDER
    A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
  • CONFECTIONER
    1. A compounder. Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents. Haywood. 2. One whose occupation it is to make or sell confections, candies, etc.
  • WHOSE
    The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
  • 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.
  • INOCCUPATION
    Want of occupation.
  • DISOCCUPATION
    The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
  • PREOCCUPATION
    1. The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession. 2. Anticipation of objections. South.

 

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