Confection Meaning
/kənˈfɛkʃən/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA 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.
nounThe act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
Sentence Examples
The baker created a sugar confection that looked like a flower.
She bought a box of assorted confections from the shop.
She created a delicious sweet confection using chocolate and nuts.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The baker spent hours decorating the delicate sugar ____ for the wedding.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The bakery displayed a beautiful chocolate ____ in the window to attract passing customers.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English confescioun, borrowed from Old French confeccion (French confection), borrowed from Latin cōnfectiōnem, from confectus, past participle of conficere (“prepare”), from com- (“with”) + facere (“to make, do”). Originally "the making by means of ingredients"; sense of "candy or light pastry" predominant since 1500s.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"She found a sexy, lacy confection in a lingerie drawer and quickly slipped into it."
— 2007, Susan Sizemore, Primal Desires:
"Was it not a goodly poison that he gave!
Why, he's as well now as he was before.
It shuld have been some fine confection
That might have given the broth some dainty taste"
— 2007, Unknown, edited by White, Martin and Lockwood, Tom, Arden of Faversham, 2nd edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 20, Scene 1, ll. 421–425:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The baker spent hours decorating the delicate sugar ____ for the wedding.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The bakery displayed a beautiful chocolate ____ in the window to attract passing customers.