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. Baked goods.

Concepts

bakery

bakehouse

bakeshop

baker’s

cake shop

baker

pastry shop

baking

baker’s shop

furnace

oast

oven

bread shop

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.