[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/baker/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [B](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/b/) / baker # baker noun (baker, bakers); noun bakery «baker» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A baker is a person who makes bread, cakes and pies to sell. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#m2) ### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x1) - The baker sold 95 pastries. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x2) - How many cakes did the baker have left? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x3) - The baker made 8 trays of cookies with 12 on each. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x4) - The baker gets up at 4 in the morning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x5) - We bought fresh rolls at the baker's. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x6) - My mum is a good baker. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x7) - A baker's dozen is 13. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/#x8) - But I have eaten it!” exclaimed the baker in dismay. [tree →](https://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 Jewish tradition Interpretation: Pharaoh's chief baker dreamed of baskets of bread and was hanged, as Joseph interpreted. The tradition sees Joseph's skill as coming from God. In the primary 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 - But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. (Torah GEN.40.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/baker/#x1) - And Pharaoh was wroth against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. (Torah GEN.40.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/baker/#x2) - And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt. (Torah GEN.40.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/baker/#x3) - And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. (Prophets 1SA.8.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/baker/#x4) - They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth to stir from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened. (Prophets HOS.7.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/baker/#x5) - For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait; their baker sleepeth all the night, in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. (Prophets HOS.7.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/baker/#x6) ### 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. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «baker» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baker/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«baker» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/baker.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «baker» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/baker/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«baker» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/baker.html) on Mova free.