baker

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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
   noun

   An apple suitable for baking.

   Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers.

3. 3
   noun

   someone who bakes bread or cake

4. 4
   noun

   someone who bakes commercially

5. 5
   noun

   A portable oven for baking.

6. 6
   noun

   radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter B.

7. 7
   name

   An English surname originating as an occupation for a baker, or owner of a communal oven

8. 8
   name

   A male given name transferred from the surname.

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”).