What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Pastry vs Confectionary - What's the difference?

pastry | confectionary |

As nouns the difference between pastry and confectionary

is that pastry is a baked food group which contains items made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc while confectionary is a candy, sweetmeat; a confection.

As an adjective confectionary is

relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.

pastry

English

(wikipedia pastry)

Noun

(pastries)
  • A baked food group which contains items made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.
  • (label) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
  • (label) The place where pastry is made.
  • * 1591 , , IV. iv. 2:
  • They call for dates and quinces in the pastry .

    Derived terms

    * pastry flour

    Anagrams

    *

    confectionary

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.
  • confectionary wares
  • Prepared as a confection.
  • * 1798 , , On Receipt of My Mother's Picture , line 60
  • Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, / The biscuit, or confectionary plum;

    Noun

    (confectionaries)
  • A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
  • * {{quote-book, 1787, Miss Tully, chapter=February 10, 1787, Letters Written During a Ten Years' Residence at the Court of Tripoli, year_published=1819, page=285 citation
  • , passage=After the dishes of meat were removed, a dessert of Arabian fruits, confectionaries and sweetmeats was served: among the latter was the date bread.}}
  • (obsolete) A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
  • (dated) A confectioner's shop; a confectionery.
  • * {{quote-book, 1986, Penny Hayes, The Long Trail citation
  • , passage=They stopped at a confectionary where Blanche experienced her first ice cream.}}
  • (obsolete) One who makes confections; a confectioner.
  • He will take your daughters to be confectionaries , and to be cooks. --
  • (uncountable, rare) Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery.
  • References

    *