bake

CEFRA2

/beɪk/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To cook food using dry heat, usually in an oven.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To cook using an oven, especially baked goods., To be cooked in an oven.

Examples

  • Did you really bake the pie by yourself?

  • I like to bake bread and give a loaf to my friend Mie.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /bæɪk/
  • /bek/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).

  2. To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.

  3. To be cooked in an oven.

More examples

In context

  • I took a cooking class last spring and learned to bake bread.

  • She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.

  • He baked her a cake.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”). Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).