confectioner Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone who makes candies and other sweets
    candymaker.

WordNet

Con*fec"tion*er noun
Definitions
  1. A compounder. Obs.
    Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents. Haywood.
  2. One whose occupation it is to make or sell confections, candies, etc.

Webster 1913