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Baker

//ˈbeɪ.kə(ɹ)// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An English surname originating as an occupation for a baker, or owner of a communal oven
  2. 2
    A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; A former unincorporated community in Kern County, California.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Okaloosa County, Florida.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in LaSalle County, Illinois.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Sullivan County, Indiana.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Brown County, Kansas.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Clay County, Minnesota.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; A small inactive village in Stoddard County, Missouri.
  7. 12
    A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Fallon County, Montana.
  8. 13
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Boyd County, Nebraska.
  9. 14
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in White Pine County, Nevada.
  10. 15
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Benson County, North Dakota.
  11. 16
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Texas County, Oklahoma.
  12. 17
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia.
Noun
  1. 1
    A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.

    "But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal."

  2. 2
    radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter B.
  3. 3
    someone who bakes bread or cake wordnet
  4. 4
    A portable oven for baking.
  5. 5
    someone who bakes commercially wordnet
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  1. 6
    An apple suitable for baking.

    "Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers."

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English bakere, from Old English bæcere (“baker”), from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”), equivalent to bake + -er. Cognate with Dutch bakker (“baker”), German Bäcker (“baker”), Norwegian Bokmål baker (“baker”), Swedish bagare (“baker”), Icelandic bakari (“baker”).

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