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BAKER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who bakes bread or cake
Synonyms:
baker; bread maker
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("baker" is a kind of...):
skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)
Derivation:
bake (prepare with dry heat in an oven)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who bakes commercially
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("baker" is a kind of...):
merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)
Derivation:
bake (prepare with dry heat in an oven)
Context examples:
He cashed the first check with the suspicious Portuguese grocer, paying a dollar on account and dividing the remaining two dollars between the baker and the fruit store.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And when the baker had rubbed his feet over, he ran to the miller and said: “Strew some white meal over my feet for me.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
However, we got him excommunicated for six weeks, and sentenced in no end of costs; and then the baker's proctor, and the judge, and the advocates on both sides (who were all nearly related), went out of town together, and Mr. Spenlow and I drove away in the phaeton.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Baker Street?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Ah, he thought, that was the baker.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The sixth was not straight enough; so she said he was like a green stick, that had been laid to dry over a baker’s oven.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The playground was a bare gravelled yard, open to all the back of the house and the offices; and I knew that the servants read it, and the butcher read it, and the baker read it; that everybody, in a word, who came backwards and forwards to the house, of a morning when I was ordered to walk there, read that I was to be taken care of, for I bit, I recollect that I positively began to have a dread of myself, as a kind of wild boy who did bite.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As he tore the envelope open, every item of all his debts surged in his brain—$3.85 to the grocer; butcher $4.00 flat; baker, $2.00; fruit store, $5.00; total, $14.85.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
She walked over the meadow, and presently she came upon a baker’s oven full of bread, and the loaves cried out to her, Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Accordingly we looked in at a baker's window, and after I had made a series of proposals to buy everything that was bilious in the shop, and he had rejected them one by one, we decided in favour of a nice little loaf of brown bread, which cost me threepence.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
