The table was covered with all sorts of tempting confections.
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Confection
//kənˈfɛkʃən//
Synonyms for "confection" (53 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (26)
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12 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
3 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
32 entriesShowing 16 of 32 words.
Translations
55 translations across 32 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- suikergoed noun (food item)
Albanian
1 entries- ëmbëlsirë noun (food item)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- γλύκυσμα noun (food item)
Arabic
1 entries- حَلْوَى noun (food item)
Bulgarian
2 entries- бонбон noun (food item)
- сладкиш noun (food item)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 糖果 noun (food item)
- 糖食 noun (food item)
- 蜜餞 /蜜饯 noun (food item)
Danish
1 entries- godbid noun (food item)
Dutch
1 entries- suikergoed noun (food item)
Esperanto
1 entries- sukeraĵo noun (food item)
Finnish
4 entries- kakku noun (food item)
- leivos noun (food item)
- makeat herkut noun (food item)
- makeinen noun (food item)
French
4 entries- bonbon noun (food item)
- confiserie noun (food item)
- friandise noun (food item)
- pâtisserie noun (food item)
Galician
1 entries- doce noun (food item)
Georgian
1 entries- ტკბილეულობა noun (food item)
German
2 entries- Bonbon noun (food item)
- Konfekt noun (food item)
Greek
1 entries- γλύκισμα noun (food item)
Hungarian
1 entries- édesség noun (food item)
Indonesian
1 entries- olahan gula noun (food item)
Irish
3 entries- milseog noun (food item)
- sócamas noun (food item)
- sólas noun (food item)
Italian
2 entries- dolce noun (food item)
- pasticcino noun (food item)
Japanese
2 entries- お菓子 noun (food item)
- コンフェクション noun (food item)
Korean
1 entries- 과자 noun (food item)
Malay
2 entries- gula-gula noun (food item)
- کونفيکسي noun (food item)
Norwegian
1 entries- konfekt noun (food item)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- حلوا noun (food item)
Polish
1 entries- słodycze noun (food item)
Portuguese
1 entries- confeito noun (food item)
Russian
4 entries- конди́терские изде́лия noun (food item)
- конфе́ты noun (food item)
- сла́дости noun (food item)
- сла́сти noun (food item)
Sanskrit
1 entries- गौड noun (food item)
Spanish
3 entries- confite noun (food item)
- dulce noun (food item)
- golosina noun (food item)
Swedish
2 entries- konfekt noun (food item)
- sötsak noun (food item)
Tagalog
1 entries- matamis noun (food item)
Turkish
2 entries- konfeksiyon noun (food item)
- şekerleme noun (food item)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The defense attorney maintained that the charges were a confection of the local police.
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She found a sexy, lacy confection in a lingerie drawer and quickly slipped into it.
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Was it not a goodly poison that he gave! Why, he's as well now as he was before. It shuld have been some fine confection That might have given the broth some dainty taste
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