baker
Other forms: bakers
If you're a baker, it's your job to bake bread, cake, or other baked goods. A baker usually works in a bakery.
Professional bakers make pastries, hearty loaves of bread, or cupcakes, depending on their specialty. If you're an amateur baker, you may bake cinnamon rolls or macaroons at home in your spare time. "A baker's dozen" is a common phrase meaning 13 of something — in other words, a dozen plus one extra — from the old baker's practice of adding an additional loaf to an order, which became the retail seller's only profit.
Definitions of baker
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someone who bakes bread or cake
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synonyms:
bread maker
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type of:
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skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker
a worker who has acquired special skills
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skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker
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someone who bakes commercially
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type of:
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merchandiser, merchant
a businessperson engaged in retail trade
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merchandiser, merchant
Pronunciation
US
/ˈbeɪkər/
UK
/ˈbeɪkə/
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