baker

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who makes and sells bread, cakes, and similar foods.

   The baker takes the fresh bread out of the oven every morning.

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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