bakery

Signification

1. A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
2. The trade of a baker.
3. Baked goods.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/

Étymologie

From bake + -ery (“place of”). Replaced earlier bakehouse. Originally “place for making bread”; as “shop where baked goods are sold”, it was noted as an Americanism by British travelers by 1832.