CONFECTIONER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does confectioner mean? 

• CONFECTIONER (noun)
  The noun CONFECTIONER has 1 sense:

1. someone who makes candies and other sweets

  Familiarity information: CONFECTIONER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFECTIONER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who makes candies and other sweets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

candymaker; confectioner

Hypernyms ("confectioner" is a kind of...):

maker; shaper (a person who makes things)

Instance hyponyms:

Hershey; Milton Snavely Hershey (United States confectioner and philanthropist who created the model industrial town of Hershey, Pennsylvania; founded an industrial school for orphan boys (1857-1945))

 Context examples 

It was with this extraordinary procession trooping at his and Maria's heels into a confectioner's in quest if the biggest candy-cane ever made, that he encountered Ruth and her mother.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If you live in the northern hemisphere and it snows where you will be, it will be like living in a dreamlike fairyland of brilliant white with cottages, trees, and mountaintops dusted with a thick layer of confectioner’s sugar.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was after five o’clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a confectioner’s man with a very large flat box.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)