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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.

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.

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