Noun: baker
| Singular | baker |
| Plural | bakers |
Sample Sentences
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But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. [2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:]
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Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers. [1975, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Joy of Cooking, page 129:]
Nouns inflected like baker
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bakere, from Old English bæcere (“baker”), from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”), equivalent to bake + -er. Cognate with Dutch bakker (“baker”), German Bäcker (“baker”), Norwegian Bokmål baker (“baker”), Swedish bagare (“baker”), Icelandic bakari (“baker”). See: Middle English Nouns '
bakere', Middle English Nouns '
bakere', Old English Nouns '
bæcere', Dutch Nouns '
bakker', German Nouns '
Bäcker', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
baker', Swedish Nouns '
bagare', Icelandic Nouns '
bakari'.
Verbs referencing "baker"
German Nouns
Bäcker, Danish Nouns
bager, Irish Nouns
báicéir.