bakehouse
A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked…A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
Meaning
3 sensesA building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
A building principally containing ovens.
(UK, dialectal)Bakery.
- a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English bakhows, bakhous, bachous, from Old English bæchūs (“bakery, bakehouseFrom Middle English bakhows, bakhous, bachous, from Old English bæchūs (“bakery, bakehouse”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakahūs (“bakehouse”), equivalent to bake + house. Cognate with Scots bake-hous (“bakehouse, bakery”), Saterland Frisian Bakhuus (“bakehouse”), West Frisian bakkhûs (“bakehouse”), Dutch bakhuis (“bakehouse”), German Low German Backhuus (“bakehouse”), German Backhaus (“bakehouse, bakery”).
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Forms
plural: bakehouses| Singular | bakehouse |
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