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Added 9 October 2026

bakery

/ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/ noun

In Latin: pistrīna Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about bakery at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold.

Origin

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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