confite — 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.
- sweet adj Having the taste of sugar; not sour, salty, or bitter.
Senses
confite 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.
- jelly bean A small, bean-shaped, chewy candy/sweet with a firm coating and a jelly-like center, made of sugar, flavoring, coloring and sometimes starch or other thickener, and usually sold assorted in a wide variety of flavors and bright colors.
- sweet (countable, especially, _, UK, India) A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
candy — full definition
- noun Sweet confectionery made mainly from sugar, often flavored with chocolate, fruit, or nuts.
- verb To coat or cook something in sugar syrup until it hardens.
- noun Slang for crack cocaine.
confection — full definition
- 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.
- noun The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
- noun The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
- noun An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.