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 →

2) A baker can be anyone who likes to bake at home. tree →

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 →
• The baker sold 95 pastries. tree →
• How many cakes did the baker have left? tree →
• The baker made 8 trays of cookies with 12 on each. tree →
• The baker gets up at 4 in the morning. tree →
• We bought fresh rolls at the baker's. tree →
• My mum is a good baker. tree →
• A baker's dozen is 13. tree →
• But I have eaten it!” exclaimed the baker in dismay. tree →

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.
• Strange hours often mean a shift worker, like a nurse, porter or baker, keeping everyone safe and fed.
• La boulangerie is the bakery; the baker is le boulanger or la boulangère, and many French people buy fresh bread every day.
• In prison Joseph helped the other prisoners and explained the dreams of Pharaoh's baker and cupbearer.
• And Pharaoh was wroth against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «baker» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.