BAKERY

bakery, bakeshop, bakehouse

(noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

bakery (plural bakeries)

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

The trade of a baker.

The actual goods produced in a bakery such as doughnuts, long johns, bismarcks, sugar and glazed twisters, cinnamon rolls, eclairs, etc.

Synonyms

• bakehouse

Anagrams

• Barkey, breaky, kebyar

Source: Wiktionary


Bak"er*y, n.

1. The trade of a baker. [R.]

2. The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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