baker

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈbeɪ.kə/
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/ˈbeɪ.kə/ · /ˈbeɪ.kɚ/ · /ˈbe.kəɾ/ · /ˈbeː.kə/ · /ˈbeɪkɚ/ (US)

Definition of baker

21 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
    “But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.”
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noun

  1. A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
    “But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.”
  2. A portable oven for baking.
  3. An apple suitable for baking.
    “Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers.”
  4. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter B.

name

  1. An English surname originating as an occupation for a baker, or owner of a communal oven
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English bakere, from Old English bæcere (“baker”), from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”), equivalent to bake + -er. Cognate with Dutch bakker (“baker”), German Bäcker (“baker”), Norwegian Bokmål baker (“baker”), Swedish bagare (“baker”), Icelandic bakari (“baker”).

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