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A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island, London: Review, Prologue, p. 3, Graham helped Father in the shed. He looked after the fire under the copper of pig swill, took the pork pies to the bakehouse when needed and generally ran round doing everything Father asked [...]
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A building principally containing ovens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Bakery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bakery, bakeshop
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Broader terms: shop, store, workplace, work
Narrower terms: patisserie
From Middle English bakhows, bakhous, bachous, from Old English bæchūs (“bakery, bakehouse”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakahūs (“bakehouse”), equivalent to bake + house. Cognate with Scots bake-hous (“bakehouse, bakery”), Saterland Frisian Bakhuus (“bakehouse”), West Frisian bakkhûs (“bakehouse”), Dutch bakhuis (“bakehouse”), German Low German Backhuus (“bakehouse”), German Backhaus (“bakehouse, bakery”).
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
փուռ
(pʻuṙ)
— bakehouse
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Catalan:
fleca
— bakehouse
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Finnish:
leivintupa
— bakehouse
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French:
fournil
— bakehouse
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Saterland Frisian:
Bakhuus
— bakehouse
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Georgian:
საცხობი
(sacxobi)
— bakehouse
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Irish:
bácús
— bakehouse
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Latin:
pistrīna
— bakehouse
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Latvian:
ceptuve
— bakehouse
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Middle English:
bakhous
— bakehouse
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Old English:
bæchūs
— bakehouse
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Polish:
piekarnia
— bakehouse
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Romanian:
brutărie
— bakehouse
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Russian:
пека́рня
(pekárnja)
— bakehouse
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Scottish Gaelic:
taigh-fuine
— bakehouse
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Sudovian:
vumpnade
— bakehouse
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Swedish:
bagarstuga
— bakehouse
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Welsh:
popty
— bakehouse
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Welsh:
becws
— bakehouse
