English Explanatory Dictionary

bakehouse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
  2. A building principally containing ovens.
  3. Bakery.

Pronunciation

/ˈbeɪkhaʊs/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bakehouse.wav

Word forms

bakehouse bakehouses

Etymology

From Middle English bakhows, bakhous, bachous, from Old English bæchūs (“bakery, bakehouse”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakahūs (“bakehouse”), equivalent to bake + house. Cognate with Scots bake-hous (“bakehouse, bakery”), Saterland Frisian Bakhuus (“bakehouse”), West Frisian bakkhûs (“bakehouse”), Dutch bakhuis (“bakehouse”), German Low German Backhuus (“bakehouse”), German Backhaus (“bakehouse, bakery”).

Related words

bakery

Translations

Armenian: փուռ Catalan: fleca Finnish: leivintupa French: fournil Saterland Frisian: Bakhuus Georgian: საცხობი Irish: bácús Latin: pistrīna Latvian: ceptuve Middle English: bakhous Old English: bæchūs Polish: piekarnia Romanian: brutărie Russian: пека́рня Scottish Gaelic: taigh-fuine Sudovian: vumpnade Swedish: bagarstuga Welsh: popty Welsh: becws
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