Definitions for confections

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confections con·fec·tion

Spelling: [kuh n-fek-shuh n]

IPA: /kənˈfɛk ʃən/

Confections is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 501 anagrams from letters in confections (ccefinnoost).

Definitions for confections

noun

1. a sweet preparation of fruit or the like, as a preserve or candy.
2. the process of compounding, preparing, or making something.
3. a frivolous, amusing, or contrived play, book, or other artistic or literary work.
4. something made up or confected; a concoction:
5. something, as a garment or decorative object, that is very delicate, elaborate, or luxurious and usually nonutilitarian.
6. Pharmacology. a medicated preparation made with the aid of sugar, honey, syrup, or the like.

verb (used with object)

1. Archaic. to prepare as a confection.

Origin of confections

1300-50; Middle English Latin confectiōn- (stem of confectiō) completion, equivalent to confect- (see confect) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for confections

The quantity of the confection may be advantageously doubled.

And, as for the Pictures of Claye, their confection is after this maner.

There are also other ingredients, which are used in this confection.

This confection was found of great value on the march as a substitute for water.

We also made an excursion, going in a boat and there eating a confection.

It is used partly as a confection, but in the main as a sirup.

Any fruit may be made into a confection which, in India, is called "cheese."

The business they were running was a confection of several sources.

I then inquired, on a day when I had detected her with a bag of the confection.

There was a black gown and a grey gown and a confection in pale blue.