noun
-
Also called: bakehouse. a room or building equipped for baking
-
a shop in which bread, cakes, etc, are sold
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bakery
Explanation
A bakery is a shop that sells bread and other baked goods. Your neighborhood bakery might specialize in frosted cupcakes. Some bakeries are storefronts selling a selection of pies, cakes, breads, and cookies, while others are simply places where these items are made, to be sold in other shops. People who work in a bakery are bakers — their work involves mixing batter, kneading dough, and cooking baked goods in hot ovens. The earlier term was bakehouse, which was replaced in the US by bakery in the 19th century.
Vocabulary lists containing bakery
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Griffin and the bakery workers first realized something was wrong when it got abnormally hot in their kitchen last Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Very few people would consider a fresh bakery loaf to be “ultra” processed.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
Coughlan said that the bakery went into voluntary liquidation in order to make sure it will still be able to pay suppliers and employees.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Irca makes ingredients and semi-finished products for the pastry, bakery, chocolate and ice cream markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
“No! No, it’s...okay. I’ll stop by the bakery soon.”
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
Six new Pasadena bakeries to visit for cinnamon rolls, cookies, croissants, Labubu tarts, bagels, gluten-free desserts and vegan pastries.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Many high-end chocolatiers and bakeries insist that Iranian and Turkish pistachios are higher quality and better suited for baking because of their oil content.
From Salon ● May 6, 2026
Living in Tokyo in the early 1980s when our bakeries didn’t yet sell pita, I found directions in a discarded James Beard cookbook and made my own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
The visit was part of a government drive to exempt independent bakeries and flower shops from mandatory rest on Labour Day - a public holiday across the country.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
“All you do is sit around in those bakeries and write poetry.”
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
