Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that bakes bread, cakes, or pastries, especially commercially.
- n. One that bakes, especially a portable oven.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who bakes; specifically, one whose business it is to make bread, biscuit, etc.
- n. A small portable tin oven used in baking. [U. S.]
- n. The popular name of the flesh-fly, Sarcophaga carnaria.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.
- n. U.S. A portable oven in which baking is done.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who bakes commercially
- n. someone who bakes bread or cake
Etymologies
- bake + -er, cognate with Dutch bakker. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I'll leave you with what I call the baker's blessing.”
“I fiddle as a cook all the time, but fiddling as a baker is something I don't always do so comfortably.”
“Jean-Marc and the kids have gone into town to buy bread and I hope the baker is working though it is a jour férié.”
“By making friends with the head cashier/manager lady*, and introducing myself as a baker from the EEUU, I was allowed to climb the stairs to the large production area above the salesroom.”
“The baker is a young Candian fellow who makes sourdough French bread that is every bit as good as what you can get in San Franciso.”
“It was identical to the gene ( "start") that Hartwell earlier had identified in baker's yeast, controlling the transition from G1 to S.”
“He later discovered that cdc2 not only controls cell division, the final event of the cell cycle, but has a key regulatory function for the whole cell cycle, including that described for CDC28 in baker's yeast.”
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 - Presentation Speech
“I had a book that had the word baker in it, and the boys used to think that when they got so far as that, the were getting on pretty”
“The school had been open two or three months when one day, while the class was spelling the word baker, an abrupt knock on the door interrupted the class and then a man entered without waiting to be admitted.”
“In his shop someone called the baker, who pretended not to hear.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘baker’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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Last Names That Are Professions
Let's keep this to reasonably well known family names that are or used to be professions, trades, or arts.
fletcher, chandler, goldsmith, carpenter, cook, baker, draper, smith, mason, carter, cooper, mercer and 35 more...
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Autantonyms
Words with mutually exclusive double meanings. Also, here are some:
QUASI-AUTANTONYMS: slow up/slow down; bar/debar; bone/debone; burn up/burn down; fat chance/slim chance; fill in/fil...clip, cleave, sanction, handicap, fast, jibe, secrete, aloha, bimonthly, bolt, cheerio, commencement and 139 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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Trades Featured in R. Campbell's The ...
Hey kids! What do YOU want to be when you grow up?!
Reprint edition, Devon: Latimer Trend & Co., Ltd., 1969. Full original citation (you'd better grab a drink and sit down) is:
...woollen draper, wood monger, wood cutter, wine cooper, woolsted man, wool card maker, wool comber, wool stapler, wire drawer, whalebone-man, whip maker, weaver and 343 more...
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I made this!
People who make stuff.
milliner, jeweler, silversmith, cobbler, draper, goldsmith, locksmith, carpenter, joiner, baker, stonemason, wheelwright and 43 more...
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Words that describe Emily Therese
Words that describe me
botanist, policy wonk, summer camp, sunflower, naturalist, copper, ecologist, conservationist, environmentalist, reader, feminist, wolverine and 15 more...
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The Miller's Tale
cheesemonger, fishmonger, mercer, milliner, cobbler, sailor, cooper, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, jewler and 34 more...
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cute /funny words
its whatevuh!
pukka, kawaii, sushi, phuket, tartan, tartar, gawd, omigawd, chihuahua, angelfish, fritter, pollo and 4 more...
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To Marji
compote, baker, pie, traveller, nurse, mother hen, executive, berkeley, seattle, friend, denver, punctilious and 55 more...
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oroboros Contronymic in the sense: baker vs. bakee (potato). Jan 27, 2007