Baker Meaning
/ˈbeɪ.kə/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
nounA portable oven for baking.
Sentence Examples
The students cheered in honor of Dr. Baker's birthday.
The house whose roof you can see is Mr Baker's.
He set his son up as a baker.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ kneaded the dough and placed it in the hot oven to rise.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ starts working very early every morning to make fresh bread.
Word Origin & History
Inherited from Middle English bakere, from Old English bæcere (“baker”), from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”), equivalent to bake + -er. Cognate with Dutch bakker (“baker”), German Bäcker (“baker”), Norwegian Bokmål baker (“baker”), Swedish bagare (“baker”), Icelandic bakari (“baker”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal."
— 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
"Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers."
— 1975, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Joy of Cooking, page 129:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ kneaded the dough and placed it in the hot oven to rise.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ starts working very early every morning to make fresh bread.