bakery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Baked goods.

   Fresh bakery!

2. 2
   noun

   a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold

3. 3
   noun

   A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.

4. 4
   noun

   The trade of a baker.

Etymology

From 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.