Usually means: Sweet treats made for enjoyment.
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  1. confectionary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. confectionary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confectionary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confectionary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confectionary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Confectionary, confectionary: Wordnik
  7. confectionary: Wiktionary
  8. confectionary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. confectionary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. confectionary: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Confectionary, confectionary: Dictionary.com
  12. Confectionary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Confectionary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. confectionary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Confectionary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. confectionary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. confectionary: Free Dictionary
  18. confectionary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. confectionary: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. confectionary: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (confectionary)

adjective:  Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.
adjective:  Prepared as a confection.
noun:  A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
noun:  (obsolete) A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
noun:  (obsolete) One who makes confections; a confectioner.
noun:  Dated form of confectionery (“a confectioner's shop”). [(uncountable) Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.]
noun:  (uncountable) Archaic form of confectionery (“candy, sweets, taken collectively”). [(uncountable) Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.]

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