Usually means: Sweet treat made for enjoyment.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word confection:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. confection: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. confection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confection: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confection: Vocabulary.com
  6. Confection, confection: Wordnik
  7. confection: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. confection: Wiktionary
  9. confection: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. confection: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. confection: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Confection, confection: Dictionary.com
  13. confection: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Confection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Confection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. confection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. confection: Rhymezone
  18. confection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. confection: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. confection: Free Dictionary
  21. confection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. confection: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. confection: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confection: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confection: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. confection: Medical dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Confection: Easton Bible
  2. CONFECTION: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

(Note: See confectioning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
noun:  The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
noun:  The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
noun:  (dated) An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.
noun:  (dated) Something, such as a garment or a decoration, that is very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also impractical or non-utilitarian.
noun:  (pharmacology) A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
noun:  (obsolete, medicine) A medicinal preparation of any kind, a compound of drugs.
noun:  (obsolete) A deadly poison.
verb:  To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.

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