The difference between Candy and Confectionery
When used as nouns, candy means edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors, whereas confectionery means foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group.
Candy is also verb with the meaning: to cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
check bellow for the other definitions of Candy and Confectionery
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Candy as a noun (uncountable, chiefly, North America):
Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
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Candy as a noun (countable, chiefly, North America):
A piece of confectionery of this kind.
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Candy as a noun (slang, chiefly [[US]]):
crack cocaine
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Candy as a verb (cooking):
To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
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Candy as a verb (intransitive):
To have sugar crystals form in or on.
Examples:
"Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time."
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Candy as a verb (intransitive):
To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
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Candy as a noun (obsolete):
A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
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Confectionery as a noun (uncountable):
Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.
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Confectionery as a noun (uncountable):
The business or occupation of manufacturing confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner.
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Confectionery as a noun:
A store where confectionery is sold; a confectioner's shop.