bakery

noun
/ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/

Etymology

From bake + -ery (“place of”). Replaced earlier bakehouse. Originally "place for making bread"; as "shop where baked goods are sold", it was believed by British travelers by 1832 to be an American-invented term.

  1. derived from *bʰeh₃g-
  2. inherited from *bakaną
  3. inherited from *bakan
  4. inherited from bacan
  5. inherited from baken
  6. formed as bakery — “bake + -ery

Definitions

  1. A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.

  2. The trade of a baker.

  3. Baked goods.

    • Fresh bakery!
    • 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Bridget & Jacob were coming home from the hospital bout 11:30. Kathy & I made a little "brunch" of bakery & coffee.
    • Then, later, I think I saw them at Lemke's Tomahawk Foods getting roasted chicken from the delicatessen and at Nelson's County Market picking up some bakery and fruit. It looked like they were going on a picnic.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at bakery. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01bakery02bread03cereals04cereal05wheat

A definitional loop anchored at bakery. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at bakery

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA