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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A place where products such as bread, cake, and pastries are baked or sold.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The trade of a baker.
  • noun A place used for making bread, etc., or for the sale of bakers' goods; a bakehouse or baker's establishment; a baker's shop.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The trade of a baker.
  • noun A place for baking bread; a bakehouse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A shop in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
  • noun The trade of a baker.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold

Etymologies

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From bake +‎ -ery (“place of”).

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