English > confect: 3 senses > noun 1, food| Meaning | A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts. |
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| Synonym | candy |
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| Narrower | Easter egg | An egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter |
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| Life Saver | A candy shaped like a small lifesaver |
| Turkish Delight | A jellied candy typically flavored with rose water |
| bonbon | A candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate |
| brandyball | A British candy flavored with brandy |
| brittle, toffee, toffy | caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets |
| butterscotch | A hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar |
| candy bar | A candy shaped as a bar |
| candy cane | A hard candy in the shape of a rod (usually with stripes) |
| candy corn | A small yellow and white candy shaped to resemble a kernel of corn |
| caramel | Firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk |
| carob bar | A bar of candy made with carob powder |
| cotton candy, spun sugar, candyfloss | A candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature |
| dragee | sugar-coated nut or fruit piece |
| dragee | silvery candy beads used for decorating cakes |
| fondant | candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste |
| fudge | Soft creamy candy |
| gumdrop | A jellied candy coated with sugar crystals |
| hard candy | candy that is brittle |
| honey crisp | A crisp candy made with honey |
| horehound | A candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant |
| jelly bean, jelly egg | sugar-glazed jellied candy |
| kiss, candy kiss | Any of several bite-sized candies |
| licorice, liquorice | A black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant |
| lollipop, sucker, all-day sucker | hard candy on a stick |
| lozenge | A small aromatic or medicated candy |
| marshmallow | spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar |
| marzipan, marchpane | almond paste and egg whites |
| mint, mint candy | A candy that is flavored with a mint oil |
| nougat | nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste |
| nougat bar | A bar of nougat candy often dipped in chocolate |
| nut bar | paste of nuts and sugar on a pastry base cut into bars |
| patty | round flat candy |
| peanut bar | bar of peanuts in taffy |
| popcorn ball | popcorn combined with a thick sugar or molasses or caramel syrup and formed into balls |
| praline | cookie-sized candy made of brown ... / brown sugar and butter and pecans |
| rock candy | sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string |
| rock candy, rock | Hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint) |
| sugar candy | made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens |
| sugarplum | Any of various small sugary candies |
| taffy | chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy |
| truffle, chocolate truffle | creamy chocolate candy |
| Broader | sweet, confection | A food rich in sugar |
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| Spanish | caramelo, dulce, golosina |
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| Catalan | bombons, caramel, dolços, llaminadura, llaminadures |
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