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bak·er

(bā′kər)

1. One that bakes bread, cakes, or pastries, especially commercially.

2. One that bakes, especially a portable oven.

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baker

(ˈbeɪkə)

1. (Professions) a person whose business or employment is to make or sell bread, cakes, etc

2. a portable oven

3. on the baker's list informal Irish in good health

Baker

(ˈbeɪkə)

1. (Biography) Sir Benjamin. 1840–1907, British engineer who, with Sir John Fowler, designed and constructed much of the London underground railway, the Forth Railway Bridge, and the first Aswan Dam

2. (Biography) Chet, full name Chesney H. Baker. 1929–88, US jazz trumpeter and singer

3. (Biography) Dame Janet. born 1933, British mezzo-soprano

4. (Biography) Sir Samuel White. 1821–93, British explorer: discovered Lake Albert (1864)

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bak•er

(ˈbeɪ kər)

n.

1. a person who bakes, esp. one who makes and sells bread, cake, etc.

2. a small portable oven.

[before 1000]

Ba•ker

(ˈbeɪ kər)

n.

1. Josephine, 1906–75, French entertainer, born in the U.S.

2. Mount, a mountain in NW Washington, in the Cascade Range: highest peak, 10,750 ft. (3277 m).

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Noun	1.	baker - someone who bakes commercially merchandiser, merchant - a businessperson engaged in retail trade
	2.	baker - someone who bakes bread or cake bread maker skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker - a worker who has acquired special skills

Translations

خَبّازخَبَّازدُكّان الخُبْز

pekařpekařkapekařství

bagerbagerforretning

Bäcker Bäckerei Bäckerin

αρτοποιός φούρναρης

panadero pastelero

pagar

leipuri

boulanger boulangère boulangerie

pekarpekarica

pékpéküzlet

bakaribakarí

fornaio panettiere fornaia panettiera

パン屋パン屋の主人

제빵사

pekár

pek

bagare

คนทำขนมปัง

fırıncıpastacıekmekçi fırın

người làm bánh mì

面包师面包店

baker

[ˈbeɪkəʳ] N → panadero/a m/f; [of cakes] → pastelero/a m/f
baker's (shop) (for bread) → panadería f; (for cakes) → pastelería f
baker's dozen → docena f de fraile

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

baker

[ˈbeɪkə^r] n → boulanger m
He's a baker → Il est boulanger.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

baker

n → Bäcker(in) m(f); baker’s boy → Bäckerjunge m; baker’s (shop) → Bäckerei f, → Bäckerladen m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

baker

[ˈbeɪkəʳ] n → fornaio/a, panettiere/a
baker's (shop) → panetteria, forno
at/to the baker's → dal panettiere, dal fornaio

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bake

(beik) verb

1. to cook in an oven. I'm going to bake (bread) today; She baked the ham.

2. to dry or harden by heat. The sun is baking the ground dry.

baked adjective

baked ham; freshly baked bread.

ˈbaker noun

1. a person who bakes. He is a qualified baker; She is a good baker.

2. a baker's shop.

ˈbakery – plural ˈbakeries – noun

a place where baking is done and / or where bread, cakes etc are sold. I bought some cakes at the bakery.

ˈbaking noun

the act or art of cooking bread, cakes etc.

baking powder

a powder used to make cakes etc rise. This sponge cake is very flat – you can't have used enough baking powder.

a baker's dozen

thirteen.

baker

→ خَبَّاز pekař bager Bäcker αρτοποιός panadero leipuri boulanger pekar fornaio パン屋の主人 제빵사 bakker baker piekarz padeiro пекарь bagare คนทำขนมปัง fırıncı người làm bánh mì 面包师

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An old man named Daniel Baker, living near Lebanon, Iowa, was suspected by his neighbors of having murdered a peddler who had obtained permission to pass the night at his house.

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A few paces further on was a baker's shop, which seemed to have a gay and merry man for a master.

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This was called Baker's Bay, and here the Tonquin was anchored.

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Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H.

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He came as a Baker: but owned, when too late-- And it drove the poor Bellman half-mad-- He could only bake Bridecake--for which, I may state, No materials were to be had.

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I had heard before that we were to breakfast there, but Blucher said he believed Baker's boy had suggested it to his Imperial Highness.

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The poor child no more conceived at present the idea that the young squire could ever be her lover than a baker's pretty daughter in the crowd, whom a young emperor distinguishes by an imperial but admiring smile, conceives that she shall be made empress.

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I was glad, when I came home from school at noon, to see a farm-wagon standing in the back yard, and I was always ready to run downtown to get beefsteak or baker's bread for unexpected company.

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Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella, to the baker's.

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For a long time there was a feud between the baker and a grey cat that belonged to Sylvester West, the druggist.

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The case of Colonel Valentine Baker obstructs that argument, for a man cannot become an officer in the British army except he hold the rank of gentleman.

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I got food--sour, hard, and mouldy, but quite eatable--in a baker's shop here.

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