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confection

Syllabification: (con·fec·tion)
Pronunciation: /kənˈfekSHən/
Translate confection | into Italian
Definition of confection

noun

  • 1a dish or delicacy made with sweet ingredients:a whipped chocolate and cream confection
  • an elaborately constructed thing, especially a frivolous one:the city is a classical confection of shimmering gold
  • a fashionable or elaborate article of women’s dress:she was wearing some white confection with an enormous satin bow
  • 2the action of mixing or compounding something.

Derivatives

confectionary

Pronunciation: /-ˌnerē/
adjective

Origin:

Middle English (in the general sense 'something made by mixing', especially a medicinal preparation): via Old French from Latin confectio(n-), from conficere 'put together' (see confect)

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