Definitions
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 ascakes ) is baked and/or sold. - noun   The 
trade of abaker . 
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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Examples
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"This bakery is a local treasure and its funky location is part of its charm."
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This bakery is a local treasure and its funky location is part of its charm.
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We know that he works at a bakery; is that part of his training?
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In an AP article regarding G.W. Bush's upcoming visit to Woodward, Oklahoma, Kelle Robinson, co-owner of a local bakery is quoted as saying, "He's not too good for the common people."
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Jan 14th, 2010 at 11: 47 am satandethomen: paris bakery is one of the worst banh mi places in chinatown.
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See, at first we thought it WAS your birthday, but then Joe thought maybe it wasn't, so we called the bakery, and...
Blunders that Burn 2010
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See, at first we thought it WAS your birthday, but then Joe thought maybe it wasn't, so we called the bakery, and...
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From the paper of record: “Another branch of this Greenwich Village bakery is to open in late September in Midtown: 1240 Avenue of the Americas (49th Street).”
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Four World Bakery products will only be available via pre-order at established pick-ups until the new incarnation of the bakery is born.
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The bakery is within walking distance from where I live.
 
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