bakery

American  

[bay-kuh-ree, bayk-ree] / ˈbeɪ kə ri, ˈbeɪk ri /

noun

• bakeries
  plural

1. Also called bakeshop. a baker's shop.

2. a place where baked goods are made.

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bakery British  

/ ˈbeɪkərɪ /

noun

1. Also called: bakehouse. a room or building equipped for baking

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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• bakeries
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of bakery

1535–45; baker + -y ³; now taken as bake + -ery

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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.

Example Sentences

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The Weston family, worth billions, is a Canadian-British food-business clan that traces its roots to a bakery business founded in Toronto in 1882.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

“You’ve got air-conditioning fans on at the bakery so the air blows on the dough during proofing. It gets a skin on it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Pastry chef Daniel Duckett closed his east Belfast patisserie in the last year, but has now re-opened in partnership with Knott's bakery chain in Forestside shopping centre.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

I still think about a shokupan dog I ate years ago at a Japanese bakery in Washington whose name I have entirely forgotten, though apparently not its merchandise.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Isa left the bakery and blindly walked toward home, not feeling the harsh wind whipping around her.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

Here, she shares the bakeries and markets where she stocks up on pantry staples and the secrets to her almond-butter toast and homemade pesto.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

“There were no bakeries in Palm Springs he approved of,” Langer says of his dad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Especially at bakeries and cha chaan tengs, Cantonese diners.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

"We are running short of bread. There was no fresh bread today because the bakeries are closed," Miguel Angel Campana, a municipal street cleaner in Ceuta, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

There were wedges of yellow cheese, but no balls of cheese like the white queso del país wrapped in banana leaves sold in bakeries all over Puerto Rico.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

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