bakery

Meaning

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. (US, uncountable) Baked goods.
4. (Internet) A big pair of buttocks.

Synonyms

bakehouse

bakeshop

cake shop

baker’s

baker

baker’s shop

pastry shop

bread shop

baking

furnace

oast

oven

Translations

boulangerie

Bäckerei

panetteria

panadería

bakkerij

padaria

panificio

αρτοποιείο

forno

fleca

Backstube

fırın

fournil

φούρνος

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/

Etymology

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.