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bakery.

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

6 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi//ˈbeɪk.ɹi/
  1. A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.

    countable
  2. The trade of a baker.

    uncountable
  3. Baked goods.

    US · uncountable
    Fresh bakery!
  4. A large pair of buttocks.

    countable · humorous · slang · uncountable
    He's got a whole damn bakery back there!
Where this word comes from

From bake + -ery (“place of”). Replaced earlier bakehouse. Originally "place for making bread"; as "shop where baked goods are sold", it was believed by British travelers by 1832 to be an American-invented term. Sense 4 is by analogy with cake (“buttocks”).

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