baking

C2+ Topic:Cooking & Baking

US /ˈbeɪkɪŋ/ UK /ˈbeɪkɪŋ/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
the act of cooking by dry oven heat; intensely hot

We crossed the baking pavement to reach the shade.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · the act of cooking by dry... roastingscorchingsweltering torrid sizzling

Opposites

freezing frigid

Word family

Related forms bake baked baker

Etymology

From bake + the suffix -ing; bake is from Old English bacan ('to bake'), from Proto-Germanic *bakaną.

bacan Old English *bakaną Proto-Germanic

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Topics

Cooking & Baking Actions & Processes Word Formation & Derivatives

External links

# baking

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈbeɪkɪŋ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈbeɪkɪŋ/

## Meanings
1. the act of cooking by dry oven heat; intensely hot

## Examples
- We crossed the baking pavement to reach the shade.

## Synonyms
- roasting
- scorching
- sweltering
- torrid
- sizzling

## Antonyms
- freezing
- frigid

## Related Forms
- bake
- baked
- baker

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: bacan
- Root: *bakaną

## Etymology
From bake + the suffix -ing; bake is from Old English bacan ('to bake'), from Proto-Germanic *bakaną.

## AI Etymology
baking comes from bake + the suffix -ing; bake is from Old English bacan ('to bake'), from Proto-Germanic *bakaną. Morphologically, the word is transparent as a compound: its parts remain visible in the modern spelling, while the older history of those parts supplies the deeper ancestry. In modern use, the noun sense is "the act of cooking by dry oven heat; intensely hot", which keeps the etymology connected to the word's present dictionary value rather than treating it as a merely historical label. The wider word family includes related English forms such as bake, baked, baker, showing how the same base continues to support neighboring English vocabulary. The principal historical forms in the chain include Old English bacan, Proto-Germanic *bakaną, which anchor the explanation in named linguistic material.

## Topics
- Cooking & Baking
- Actions & Processes
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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