bakery
/ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/
bakery noun: a place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
Noun
bakery (countable and uncountable, plural bakeries)
- A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
- The trade of a baker.
- Baked goods.
- Fresh bakery!
- Bridget & Jacob were coming home from the hospital bout 11:30. Kathy & I made a little "brunch" of bakery & coffee.1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- Synonyms:
- baking
- A large pair of buttocks.
- He's got a whole damn bakery back there!
bakery meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
bakery in Hindi
- a shop in which bread and such is baked and sold
- बेकरी bekrī
bakery in Tamil
- வெதுப்பகம், அடுமனை, அடுமனையகம், பல்சுவையகம், பல்சுவை நிலையம், சுவையகம்
bakery in Marathi
- बेकरी
bakery in Urdu
- a shop in which bread and such is baked and sold
- بیکْری bekrī
More languagesFewer languages
- bakery in Bengali
- বেকারি bekari
- bakery in Telugu
- బేకరీ
- bakery in Malayalam
- ബേക്കറി
- bakery in Kannada
- ಅಟ್ಟಂಗಡಿ aṭṭaṅgaḍi
- bakery in Punjabi
- ਬੇਕਰੀ
- bakery in Gujarati
- પદરખાનું padarkhānũ, ભઠિયારખાનું bhaṭhiyārkhānũ
- bakery in Odia
- ବେକେରୀ
- bakery in Nepali
- बेकरी
- bakery in Tagalog
- panaderya, tinapayan
- bakery in Arabic
- مَخْبِز maḵbiz, مَخْبَزَة maḵbaza
- bakery in Malay
- kedai roti
- bakery in Indonesian
- toko roti, bakeri
- bakery in Thai
- ร้านขนมปัง ráan-kà-nǒm-bpang, เบเกอรี bee-gəə-rîi
- bakery in Vietnamese
- lò bánh mì, tiệm bánh
- bakery in Myanmar
- မုန့်ဖုတ်ရုံ mun.hputrum
Examples of bakery in a sentence
- Then, later, I think I saw them at Lemke's Tomahawk Foods getting roasted chicken from the delicatessen and at Nelson's County Market picking up some bakery and fruit.2011 January 27, Will Kalinke, Grandma Is a Saint, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:
- Chuck went to the bakery and got some bakery.2011 September 7, Ann Carol, Dark Places, Author House, →ISBN, page 196:
- I better had let her buy some bakery for me.2017 May 1, James S. Peters, Sadakichi Hartmann, Alien Son: A Biography, Sunstone Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 121:
- So I thought I would go surprise her, and I bought her some flowers and picked up some bakery in town.2018 December 15, Hannah Katherine Klumb, The Suicide Bridge, Waterton Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 35:
Synonyms of bakery
Forms of bakery
| plural | bakeries |
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Origin of bakery
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”).
Words formed from bakery
Phrases with bakery
Questions about bakery
- What does bakery mean?
- Bakery means a place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
- What is bakery in Hindi?
- Bakery in Hindi is बेकरी (bekrī). See Bakery meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use bakery in a sentence?
- Then, later, I think I saw them at Lemke's Tomahawk Foods getting roasted chicken from the delicatessen and at Nelson's County Market picking up some bakery and fruit.
- What part of speech is bakery?
- Bakery is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bakery?
- Bakery is pronounced /ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/.
- What is the plural of bakery?
- The plural of bakery is bakeries.
Words near bakery in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bakery (page history and authors); bakery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bakery (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bakery (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bakery (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ಅಟ್ಟಂಗಡಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors); bakery (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); પદરખાનું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); bakery (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bakery (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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