What is another word for confectioner?

Pronunciation: [kənfˈɛkʃənə] (IPA)

A confectioner is someone who creates or sells candies, chocolates, sweets, and other confectionery products. There are various other terms or synonyms most people use to describe a confectioner. Pastry chef, dessert maker, sweet maker, candymaker, sugarworker, and chocolatier are some of the alternative terms that can also refer to a confectioner. Bakers and patissiers who specialize in creating sweet treats may also be called confectioners. Regardless of the term used, these individuals must have knowledge about ingredients, cooking techniques, and flavors. They also need to be creative and innovative to come up with new recipes and designs that will satisfy customers and stand out in a highly competitive industry.

Synonyms for Confectioner:

What are the hypernyms for Confectioner?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    baker, chef, patissier, candy-maker.

Usage examples for Confectioner

Then he made his way back to the town and the nearest confectioner, and started for home just as Miss Nugent, who was about to pay a call with her aunt, waited, beautifully dressed, in the front garden while that lady completed her preparations.
"At Sunwich Port, Complete"
W.W. Jacobs
They went trembling: Claire in agony lest she should encounter Richard Linnell; her father about the expenses into which he was drifting, for the tradespeople were giving him broad hints, especially the confectioner, that money must be forthcoming if the refreshments were to be supplied.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
The windows of a confectioner gleam brightly in front of me-it is the worst in all Warsaw-their tea is shocking-but since there is no choice!
"Stories and Pictures"
Isaac Loeb Peretz

Famous quotes with Confectioner

  • A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
    Anton Chekhov
  • A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.
    Anton Chekhov
  • The confectioner relied equally on the power which he possessed of injuring or benefiting, as he should elect, the property of nearly every man in the community. And, finally, he relied on the utility of his institution to the government, in the collection, safe keeping, and disbursement of its revenues; and to the public, in regulating domestic and foreign exchange, in furnishing a currency of nearly uniform value over the whole empire, and in which government dues could be paid without the procurement of sugar, that was scarce as well as cumbersome.
    Alexander Bryan Johnson

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