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# baker

«baker» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who makes bread, cakes and pies to sell** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (baker, bakers); noun bakery

### meaning for a pupil

1) A baker is a person who makes bread, cakes and pies to sell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#m1)

2) A baker can be anyone who likes to bake at home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

the person in a story who makes and sells cakes, pastries or bread; the counted things are what the baker made and sold; a baker works in a bakery, often early in the morning; phrases: «the baker's» (the shop), «a baker's dozen» (13)

### examples

- A baker made 120 cakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x1)
- The baker sold 95 pastries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x2)
- How many cakes did the baker have left? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x3)
- The baker made 8 trays of cookies with 12 on each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x4)
- The baker gets up at 4 in the morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x5)
- We bought fresh rolls at the baker's. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x6)
- My mum is a good baker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x7)
- A baker's dozen is 13. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x8)
- But I have eaten it!” exclaimed the baker in dismay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x9)

### note

Names the actor, not a quantity. What the baker «made» adds, what he «sold» takes away. Trap: cakes and pastries are different things; read which one the question asks about.

### In the corpora

- [Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day; nurses, drivers, bakers and warehouse workers often do them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/6/)
- [Strange hours often mean a shift worker, like a nurse, porter or baker, keeping everyone safe and fed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/14/)
- [La boulangerie is the bakery; the baker is le boulanger or la boulangère, and many French people buy fresh bread every day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/22-the-town-and-directions/7/)
- [In prison Joseph helped the other prisoners and explained the dreams of Pharaoh's baker and cupbearer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/11/)
- [And Pharaoh was wroth against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1275/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «baker» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.