Other forms: bakeries
A bakery is the shop that smells of warm fresh loaves every morning. Bread at the back, cakes at the front.
The smell is not an accident, since many chains vent the ovens towards the street for exactly that reason, which is one of the more effective pieces of marketing anybody has ever devised. A baker is the person and a bakehouse is the old word for the building. Britain lost most of its independent bakeries to supermarkets and has been slowly getting them back.
1nounbakeryA place where bread and cakes are baked and sold.
“There is a bakery on the corner that opens at six.”
Bakery is bake plus the ending meaning place of, and it replaced the older bakehouse. British travellers in the 1830s were convinced it was an American invention.
Middle English
baken
English
bake
English, today
bakery
From bake + -ery. Replaced earlier bakehouse. Originally "place for making bread"; as "shop where baked goods are sold", it was believed by British travelers by 1832 to be an American-invented term. Sense 4 is by analogy with cake (“buttocks”). bake comes from Middle English baken. From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic bakan, from Proto-Germanic bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”). Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (“roast”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA