Meaning

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

    Bäckerei, Backstube

    пека́рняpekárnja, хлебопека́рняxlebopekárnja, бу́лочнаяbúločnaja

    пека́рняpekárnja

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

  2. (uncountable)The trade of a baker.

  3. (US, uncountable)Baked goods.

    Fresh bakery!

  4. (countable, humorous, slang, uncountable)A large pair of buttocks.

    He's got a whole damn bakery back there!

Examples

146 sentences
  1. This used to be a bakery.

    Це колись була пекарня.

    ruЗдесь раньше была булочная.

    deDies war einmal eine Bäckerei.

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  2. I work at a bakery.

    Я працюю у пекарні.

    ruЯ работаю в пекарне.

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  3. Where's the bakery?

    Де пекарня?

    ruГде находится булочная?

    deWo ist die Bäckerei?

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  4. Tom once worked at a bakery.

    ruТом когда-то работал в пекарне.

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  5. Tom now works at a bakery.

    ruТом теперь работает в булочной.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a shop in which bread and such is baked and sold:
Русский
By meaning 1
a shop in which bread and such is baked and sold:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a shop in which bread and such is baked and sold:

Origin

From bake + -ery (“place of”). Replaced earlier bakehouse. Originally "place for making br

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.

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Forms

plural: bakeries
Singularbakery
Pluralbakeries

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold:bakeshopbakehouse

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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