bakehouse C2+ Topic:House & Home US /ˈbeɪkˌhaʊs/ UK /ˈbeɪkˌhaʊs/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 noun a building or room in which bread is baked; a bakery Warm loaves were carried fresh from the bakehouse each morning. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a building or room in which... bakerybakeshop Word family Related forms bakehouse Etymology AI details From bake + house, from Old English bacan ('to bake') + hūs ('house'). bacan Old English hūs Old English View etymology graph -> Topics House & Home External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # bakehouse **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈbeɪkˌhaʊs/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈbeɪkˌhaʊs/ ## Meanings 1. a building or room in which bread is baked; a bakery ## Examples - Warm loaves were carried fresh from the bakehouse each morning. ## Synonyms - bakery - bakeshop ## Related Forms - bake - house ## Roots and Affixes - Root: bacan - Root: hūs ## Etymology From bake + house, from Old English bacan ('to bake') + hūs ('house'). ## AI Etymology Bakehouse is from bake + house, from Old English bacan ('to bake') + hūs ('house'). Important recorded forms include bacan (Old English) and hūs (Old English). Morphologically, the word is a built form whose named elements carry part of the historical sense. The current sense covers a building or room in which bread is baked; a bakery. The wider family includes related words such as bake and house. ## Topics - House & Home markdown