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BAKERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bakery mean?
• BAKERY (noun)
The noun BAKERY has 1 sense:
1. a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold
Familiarity information: BAKERY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("bakery" is a kind of...):
shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)
work; workplace (a place where work is done)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bakery"):
patisserie (a bakery specializing in French pastry)
Context examples
He lives on the Hill, back of the Mayfair bakery, runnin’ a cobbler’s shop that everybody knows, and you’ll have no trouble.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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