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baker Definition

baker (kər)

noun

  1. a person whose work or business is baking bread, pastry, etc.
  2. ☆ a small, portable oven

Etymology: ME bakere < OE bæcere < bacan, bake

baker Synonyms

baker

n.

pastry cook, pastry chef, confectioner, pâtissier, boulanger (both French); see also cook.

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.

—Browning, Robert

'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.

—Doyle, SirArthur Conan