baker
baker
Definition
baker (bā′kər)
noun
- a person whose work or business is baking bread, pastry, etc.
- ☆ a small, portable oven
Etymology: ME bakere < OE bæcere < bacan, bake
baker
Synonyms
baker
Usage Examples
Possessives
- yeast: Dry brewer's or baker's yeast 1 part by weight.
- honey: Note 2 of Schedule 1 allows honey to be used in the name of a food in which baker's honey is an ingredient.
- dozen: However, what was even more pitiful was their away support of a baker's dozen.
- oven: A newly fitted kitchen features the original baker's oven.
- van: He drove off in his baker's van, in his rackety tackety baker's van, muttering under his breath.
- shop: The couple lived in St Thomas's parish, probably over his baker's shop.
Adjective modifier
- skilled: A Serb baker told the survey team: 'I need three skilled bakers and I can't find them anywhere.
- chief: Genesis chapter 40 ( TEV ) 1 Some time later the king of Egypt's wine steward and his chief baker offended the king.
- independent: The company was built from an amalgamation of several different independent plant bakers, many of them producing under the Mothers Pride brand.
Converse of subject
- post: Posted by john baker on August 31st, 2006.
Modifies a noun
- cyst: Over the last 3 to 4 years I have had knee problems and now bakers cysts in both knees.
- yeast: Wine yeast may be used in place of common bakers yeast.
- honey: However, the proper name of bakers honey would have to be included within the ingredients list when used during preparation.
- shop: Making cards " 5 mince pies in a bakers shop.
Noun used with modifier
- john: Posted by john baker on August 31st, 2006.
- jonathan: Johnson also indicated part of my back to the quot jonathan baker.
- journeyman: Also living in the house are five journeyman bakers ( ranging in age from 15 to 24 ) and a female general servant.
- artisan: Learn to bake in Cumbria with an artisan baker.
- master: In the 1950s there were 18,000 master bakers nationwide; today there are only 3,500 left, compared to 34,000 in France.
- craft: Craft bakers are a dying breed in the UK today.
baker Quotes
I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.
'It is the unofficial forceöthe Baker Street irregulars.'As he spoke, there came a swift pattering of naked feet upon the stairs, a clatter of high voices, and in rushed a dozen dirtyand ragged little street Arabs.
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