What does Baker mean?
Definitions for Baker
ˈbeɪ kərbak·er
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Baker.
Princeton's WordNet
bakernoun
someone who bakes commercially
baker, bread makernoun
someone who bakes bread or cake
Wiktionary
bakernoun
A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
bakernoun
A portable oven for baking.
Bakernoun
for a baker, or owner of a communal oven
Etymology: bake + -er, cognate with Dutch: bakker
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Bakernoun
He whose trade is to bake.
Etymology: from to bake.
In life and health, every man must proceed upon trust, there being no knowing the intention of the cook or baker. South.
Wikipedia
Baker
A baker is a tradesperson who bakes and sometimes sells breads and other products made of flour by using an oven or other concentrated heat source. The place where a baker works is called a bakery.
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baker
A baker is a person who produces various types of baked goods, such as bread, pastries, cakes, cookies and pies, often for sale in a bakery. This involves mixing ingredients according to recipes, shaping and baking the dough, and often includes decorating the final product. Some bakers may also be responsible for cleaning and maintaining their baking equipment.
Webster Dictionary
Bakerverb
one whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc
Bakerverb
a portable oven in which baking is done
Wikidata
Baker
A baker is someone who makes, bakes and sells breads, rolls, biscuits or cookies, and/or crackers using an oven or other concentrated heat source. Cakes and similar foods may also be produced, as the traditional boundaries between what is produced by a baker as opposed to a pastry chef have blurred in recent decades. The place where a baker works is called a bakery.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BAKER
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Baker is ranked #44 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Baker surname appeared 419,586 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 142 would have the surname Baker.
79.8% or 334,956 total occurrences were White.
14.4% or 60,588 total occurrences were Black.
2.2% or 9,567 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
2% or 8,476 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.8% or 3,650 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.5% or 2,350 total occurrences were Asian.
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British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Baker' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4405
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Anagrams for Baker »
brake
break
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Baker in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Baker in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of Baker in a Sentence
Producing plant-derived drugs in easy-to-grow plants or baker's yeast in many cases will be a much more efficient way to make these drugs, this is currently being done for artemisinin (a malaria drug derived from the sweet wormwood plant), and will likely be the way we make morphine (derived from poppies) in the future.
Partisan criticism is not uncommon, but it is usually diplomatic, think of James Baker or Leon Panetta, people who speak softly because they are used to being listened to.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.
That’s likely because voters want Charlie Baker to check on the Democratic-controlled legislature, but they’re turned off by Republicans in federal races, especially over social issues. He thinks Senator Warren and her deep-pocketed campaign will be tough to beat but that Dielh or Lindstrom are capable, with Diehl perhaps having the early advantage as a result of better name recognition. Senator Warren has $ 11 million in her campaign account through the end of June, compared with $ 260,000 for Geoff Diehl and $ 28,000 for Shiva Ayyadurai, another GOP candidate and a technology entrepreneur, according to Federal Election Commission records. Though presidents typically stay out of their party’s primaries, Bob Gray pointed out that Donald Trump has already defied that convention and mused that Donald Trump could be a factor in Massachusetts.
Michael Sussmann started to explain why Michael Sussmann was there, and James Baker said that Michael Sussmann was not appearing before me on behalf of any particular client.
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Translations for Baker
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- bakker, baksterAfrikaans
- خَبّازArabic
- пе́карка, пе́карBelarusian
- хлебар, пекарBulgarian
- fornerCatalan, Valencian
- кхаллардоттургChechen
- pekařCzech
- pobyddWelsh
- bagerDanish
- Bäcker, BäckerinGerman
- αρτοποιόςGreek
- panisto, panistinoEsperanto
- panaderoSpanish
- pagarEstonian
- okinBasque
- leipuriFinnish
- bakariFaroese
- boulanger, boulangèreFrench
- báicéirIrish
- bèicear, fuineadairScottish Gaelic
- panadeiroGalician
- אופהHebrew
- pékHungarian
- bakariIcelandic
- panettiera, panettiere, fornaio, fornaiaItalian
- パン屋, パン屋さんJapanese
- 베이커Korean
- pānifex, pistorLatin
- maiznieksLatvian
- пекар, фурнаџијаMacedonian
- furnara, furnarMaltese
- bakerNorwegian
- bakkerDutch
- bakarNorwegian Nynorsk
- piekarz, piekarkaPolish
- pasteleiro, padeiroPortuguese
- brutar, pâinarRomanian
- пекарь, хлебопёкRussian
- pȅkarica, пекарица, пе̏ка̄р, pȅkārSerbo-Croatian
- pekárka, pekárSlovak
- pekSlovene
- bagareSwedish
- fırıncıTurkish
- пе́кар, пе́каркаUkrainian
- bakan, jibakan, hibakanVolapük
- boledjî, boledjresseWalloon
- בעקערYiddish
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