bakery

[ bey-kuh-ree, beyk-ree ]

/ ˈbeɪ kə ri, ˈbeɪk ri /

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noun, plural bak·er·ies.

Also called bake·shop

[beyk-shop] /ˈbeɪkˌʃɒp/. a baker's shop.

a place where baked goods are made.

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Origin of bakery

1535–45; baker + -y³; now taken as bake + -ery

Words nearby bakery

baker's cyst, baker's dozen, baker, josephine, bakersfield, bakersheet, bakery, bakeware, bakewell, bakewell tart, bakgat, bakhmut

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Example sentences from the Web for bakery

He spent eight years cutting and pasting bakeries in different locations for [French bakery] Fauchon.
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The other is under a hefty oven in a bakery just a couple yards away.
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Outside the bakery of Akram Shahmeh, 42, rocks are flying and tires are burning.
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“My brother Khaled works in a bakery around the corner from the clashes,” Fathiya Salah Zeidan told The Daily Beast.
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There was this location in Dresden that was the front of the bakery, that was overwhelmingly beautiful.
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Near it was the bakery, if the mansion required one, supplied with an oven.
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Of all the simple people that I ever met, the 'Cajin' takes the bakery.
The Outlet|Andy Adams
They dined at the bakery, flattering themselves that the girl who waited on them did not know that they were lovers.
A Yankee from the West|Opie Read
The two apprentices in Brackett's bakery had a dozen minds about striking that first morning.
The Stillwater Tragedy|Thomas Bailey Aldrich
But I shall do my duty, although I am less at home with the lance or the sword than with the poker of the furnace in my bakery.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman|Eugne Sue

British Dictionary definitions for bakery

bakery

/ (ˈbeɪkərɪ) /

noun plural -eries

Also called: bakehouse a room or building equipped for baking

a shop in which bread, cakes, etc, are sold

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bakery

noun, plural bak·er·ies.

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Origin of bakery

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British Dictionary definitions for bakery

noun plural -eries