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Konfekt — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • candy noun Sweet confectionery made mainly from sugar, often flavored with chocolate, fruit, or nuts.
  • confection 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.
  • confectionery noun Sweets, chocolates and similar sugary foods, considered collectively.

Senses

Konfekt is used for these senses in English:

  • candy (countable, chiefly, North America, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
  • confection 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.
  • confectionery (uncountable) Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.

candy — full definition

  1. noun Sweet confectionery made mainly from sugar, often flavored with chocolate, fruit, or nuts.
  2. verb To coat or cook something in sugar syrup until it hardens.
  3. noun Slang for crack cocaine.

confection — full definition

  1. 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.
  2. noun The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
  3. noun The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
  4. noun An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.

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