different between confectionery vs confectionary

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

Etymology

From Late Latin c?nfecti?n?rius (“one who prepares things by means of ingredients”), from Latin c?nfecti? (“preparing, producing”). See confection.

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 (countable and uncountable, plural confectionaries)

1. A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
2. (obsolete) A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
3. (dated) A confectioner's shop; a confectionery.
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.

Translations

Related terms

• confect
• confection
• confectionery
• confectioner

References

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