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[ US /kənˈfɛkʃən/ ]
[ UK /kənfˈɛkʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a food rich in sugar
  2. the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components
VERB
  1. make into a confection
    This medicine is home-confected

How To Use confection In A Sentence

  • Take the white of one egg, and measure just as much cold water; mix the two well, and stir stiff with confectioners 'sugar; add a little flavoring, vanilla, or almond, or pistache, and, for some candies, color with a tiny speck of fruit paste. A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl
  • Efforts by tobacco companies to stop confectioners selling candy cigarettes in packs resembling cigarette brands seem to have been minimal.
  • Casey James Confectionery Store has sold sweets and candies on St Mary's Street, off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, since 1954.
  • Secondly, I would like to point out that we are not talking about sweeties, confectionery, or cakes, but about medicines and pharmaceuticals.
  • He travelled each morning with bread supplies for Port-laoise but in the afternoons he travelled on the country byroads bringing Brad-bury's breads and confectioneries to rural shops.
  • The idea to start manufacturing their own confectionery formed when they started giving their own handmade chocolates to friends as Christmas presents.
  • Most customers at the shop, which resembles a modern art gallery more than a confectioner's, defended the brothers. Times, Sunday Times
  • To serve the dessert, whip the cream with the confectioners' sugar.
  • Never mind that this was originally a pagan festival; the taint of necromancy (communing with the dead) has been overpowered by a commercialised confectionery fest.
  • First the candy: Known as Mozart Kugeln, packed in a delightful red tin with tiny portraitures of the composer, these are deluxe confections exquisitely filled with marzipan, made from "fresh green pistachios, almonds and rich hazelnut-nougat, enrobed with delicious milk and bitter chocolates. Rozanne Gold: Tastes of the Week
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