bakery
A place in which bread is baked and/or soldA place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
» This used to be a bakery.
Dies war einmal eine Bäckerei.
Здесь раньше была булочная.
Раньше это была булочная.
Це колись була пекарня.
Meaning
4 senses(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
(uncountable)The trade of a baker.
(US, uncountable)Baked goods.
Fresh bakery!
(countable, humorous, slang, uncountable)A large pair of buttocks.
He's got a whole damn bakery back there!
Examples
146 sentencesThis used to be a bakery.
Це колись була пекарня.
ruЗдесь раньше была булочная.
deDies war einmal eine Bäckerei.
I work at a bakery.
Я працюю у пекарні.
ruЯ работаю в пекарне.
Where's the bakery?
Де пекарня?
ruГде находится булочная?
deWo ist die Bäckerei?
Tom once worked at a bakery.
ruТом когда-то работал в пекарне.
Tom now works at a bakery.
ruТом теперь работает в булочной.
Translations
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Origin
From bake + -ery (“place of”). Replaced earlier bakehouse. Originally "place for making brFrom 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: bakeriesSynonyms
4 synonymsWord family
8 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable