different between confectionery vs candy

English

Etymology

confection +? -ery

Noun

confectionery (usually uncountable, plural confectioneries)

1. (uncountable) Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.
2. (uncountable) The business or occupation of manufacturing confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner.
3. A store where confectionery is sold; a confectioner's shop.

Synonyms

• (sweet foodstuffs, collectively): candy (US), sweets (UK)
• (business of manufacturing confectionery): sweet-making, sweet manufacture
• (shop where confectionery is sold): confectioner's, candy store (US), sweet shop (UK)

Related terms

• confect
• confection
• confectionary
• confectioner

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?n'di, IPA^(key): /?kændi/
• Rhymes: -ændi

Etymology 1

From Middle English sugre candy, from Old French sucre candi (literally “candied sugar”), from Arabic ?????? ???????? (sukkar qand?), from Arabic ?????? (qand, “rock candy”), from Persian ???? (kand); likely from Sanskrit ???? (kha??a, “piece, fragment, candied sugar, dried molasses”), root ????? (kha??, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *ka??u; compare Tamil ????? (ka??u, “hard candy”).

Noun

candy (countable and uncountable, plural candies)

1. (uncountable, chiefly Canada, US) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
2. (countable, chiefly Canada, US) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
3. (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.

Synonyms

• (confection): confectionery, sweets (British), lollies (Australia), sugar candy (US)
• (piece of candy): sweet (British), lolly (Australia)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????? (kai???)
• ? Hopi: kyenti

Translations

Verb

candy (third-person singular simple present candies, present participle candying, simple past and past participle candied)

1. (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
2. (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.

   Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

3. (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Translations

See also

• ???? (Unicode candy symbol)

References

Etymology 2

From Marathi ???? (kha???), from Sanskrit ????? (kha??ana), from root ????? (kha??, “to divide, break into pieces”).

Alternative forms

• candee
• candie
• kandy

Noun

candy (plural candies)

1. (obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

Synonyms

• maunee

Translations

Anagrams

• Dancy, dancy