confection

/kən'fekʃn/

Thân thiện

A baker decorates a colorful confection in the shop window.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A sweet food preparation: A confection is a food item that is rich in sugar, often elaborately prepared and decorated, such as candy, cake, or pastry.
   • The act of compounding or creating something: The process of making something, especially a medicine, drink, or food, by mixing various ingredients.

2. Verb:

   • To make or prepare by combining ingredients: To create something, especially a sweet food or a medicinal preparation, by skillfully mixing or assembling components.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The bakery window displayed an array of beautiful confections.
  • The pharmacist's confection of the syrup required precise measurements.
• Verb:
  • She confected a delicious dessert from simple ingredients.
  • This herbal remedy is confected according to an old family recipe.

Advanced Usage

• "Home-confected": Made or prepared at home, typically referring to food or medicine.
  • The home-confected jam tasted much better than the store-bought kind.

Variants and Related Words

• Confectioner (n): A person or company that makes or sells confections, especially sweets.
  • The confectioner is famous for his handmade chocolates.
• Confectionery (n):
  • Sweet foods like candy and chocolate collectively.

    • The store specializes in fine confectionery.
  • A place where confections are made or sold.

    • We bought treats from the old-fashioned confectionery.

Synonyms

• Sweet (n): A general term for a small item of sweet food, like a piece of candy.
• Dessert (n): The sweet course eaten at the end of a meal.
• Concoction (n): A mixture of various ingredients or elements, sometimes unusual.

Phrasal Verbs

(This word does not commonly form phrasal verbs.)

Related Idioms

• "A confection of lies": A phrase describing a story or statement that is an elaborate, deceptive fabrication, comparing it to an intricately made sweet.
  • His alibi was nothing but a clever confection of lies.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components
2. a food rich in sugar

Verb

1. make into a confection
   • This medicine is home-confected

Từ đồng nghĩa

• concoction
• sweet
• confect
• comfit