BAKER
What does "BAKER" mean?
A person who makes and sells bread, cakes, and pastries.
Meanings
- One whose trade is making bread and other baked goods. The baker had the loaves out of the oven before dawn.
- A portable oven or device for baking (e.g. a 'potato baker'). She slid the dish into the clay baker. technical
Did you know?
- A 'baker's dozen' is thirteen, not twelve: under England's 1266 Assize of Bread, bakers caught selling light loaves faced heavy penalties, so they threw in a spare loaf to be safe.
Word origin
From Old English 'bæcere', from 'bacan' (to bake) plus the agent suffix '-ere'; the surname Baker derives from the same trade name.
Remember it
A BAKER will BAKE, then add -R for the person: take the verb, give it a worker.
A little poem
Four a.m., flour-white-
she trades her sleep for the smell
the town wakes up to.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the baker work overtime? She kneaded the dough.
What it teaches
The work that feeds a whole town happens before that town is even awake.
Quick facts
What does BAKER mean?
A person who makes and sells bread, cakes, and pastries.
Is BAKER a valid word?
Yes — BAKER is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is BAKER?
BAKER has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does BAKER come from?
From Old English 'bæcere', from 'bacan' (to bake) plus the agent suffix '-ere'; the surname Baker derives from the same trade name.
What can BAKER teach us?
The work that feeds a whole town happens before that town is even awake.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.