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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 soldplay

  Familiarity information: BAKERY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BAKERY (noun)


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:

bakehouse; bakery; bakeshop

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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