bakery

CEFRB1

/ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A shop or place where bread and cakes are made or sold.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Baked goods.

Examples

  • She is buying a cake in the bakery.

  • Excuse me. Where is the bakery?

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
4

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The trade of a baker.

  2. A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.

  3. A large pair of buttocks.

More examples

In context

  • He's got a whole damn bakery back there!

  • 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Bridget & Jacob were coming home from the hospital bout 11:30. Kathy & I made a little "brunch" of bakery & coffee.

  • Fresh bakery!

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From bake + -ery (“place of”). Replaced earlier bakehouse. Originally "place for making bread"; as "shop where baked goods are sold", it was believed by British travelers by 1832 to be an American-invented term. Sense 4 is by analogy with cake (“buttocks”).