BAKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does baker mean? 

• BAKER (noun)
  The noun BAKER has 2 senses:

1. someone who bakes commercially

2. someone who bakes bread or cake

  Familiarity information: BAKER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who bakes commercially

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("baker" is a kind of...):

merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)

Derivation:

bake (prepare with dry heat in an oven)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who bakes bread or cake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

baker; bread maker

Hypernyms ("baker" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Derivation:

bake (prepare with dry heat in an oven)

 Context examples 

And there's Andy, a stone- mason, has ideas on everything, a good chess-player; and another fellow, Harry, a baker, red hot socialist and strong union man.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then the wolf ran to a baker and said: “I have hurt my feet, rub some dough over them for me.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A purified Norwegian Beta-Glucan (NBG), extracted from the cell walls of baker's yeast.

(Immutol, NCI Thesaurus)

A baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) containing high levels of the trace element selenium (Se) with potential chemopreventive, immunomodulating and antioxidant activities.

(High-Selenium Baker's Yeast, NCI Thesaurus)

A substance found in bacteria, plants, and certain foods, such as baker’s yeast, cereal grains, and mushrooms.

(Beta-glucan, NCI Dictionary)

The observations have revealed numerous clumps of material, a baker's dozen of which may evolve into the most powerful kinds of stars in the universe.

(Herschel sees budding stars and a giant, strange ring, NASA)

Baker Street was like an oven, and the glare of the sunlight upon the yellow brickwork of the house across the road was painful to the eye.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I never allowed myself to be prevailed upon to accept any invitation to eat and drink with them out of their stock (knowing that they got on badly with the butcher and baker, and had often not too much for themselves), until Mrs. Micawber took me into her entire confidence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The milkman, baker, grocer, and butcher inquired how she did, poor Mrs. Hummel came to beg pardon for her thoughtlessness and to get a shroud for Minna, the neighbors sent all sorts of comforts and good wishes, and even those who knew her best were surprised to find how many friends shy little Beth had made.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Much could not be hoped from the traffic of even the busiest part of Highbury;—Mr. Perry walking hastily by, Mr. William Cox letting himself in at the office-door, Mr. Cole's carriage-horses returning from exercise, or a stray letter-boy on an obstinate mule, were the liveliest objects she could presume to expect; and when her eyes fell only on the butcher with his tray, a tidy old woman travelling homewards from shop with her full basket, two curs quarrelling over a dirty bone, and a string of dawdling children round the baker's little bow-window eyeing the gingerbread, she knew she had no reason to complain, and was amused enough; quite enough still to stand at the door.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)