Usually means: Sweet treats made for enjoyment.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word confectionery:

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confectionery: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confectionery: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confectionery: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.
noun:  (uncountable) The business or occupation of manufacturing confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner.
noun:  A store where confectionery is sold; a confectioner's shop.

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