baker's

noun 2adj 1

Collocations

ADJ.

beautiful, close, gray, next, open, right, small

VERB + BAKER'S

buy, called, go, honor, see, sort, time, went

BAKER'S + NOUN

birthday, bread, door, dozen, half-dozen, ones, sombody, way

PREP.

across, from, in, on

ADV.

presumably

Definitions

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see baker, -'s.

noun

A shop where bread and other baked food is sold.

adj

Slightly supernumerary; a little more than. (Derived from baker's dozen.)

A baker's half-dozen of the best sorts, of proven merit, are Festiva maxima, the finest white; Couronne d'Or, a very late-flowering white; Felix Crousse, brilliant red; Mme. Crousse, white and crimson; Duchess de Nemours, sulphur white and fragrant; Marie Lemoine, ivory white; Delicatissima, crimson purple.

[…] thirty, a baker's twenty-eight, presumably. We were all delighted, particularly the baker and the guide, the former refusing money.

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Idioms & Phrases

baker's dozen

Thirteen; a group of thirteen.

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baker's half dozen

Seven, a group of seven.

Example Bank

Wiktionary

[…] thirty, a baker's twenty-eight, presumably. We were all delighted, particularly the baker and the guide, the former refusing money.

Wiktionary

The "K" stands for "one thousand," almost; actually, it means 1,024, sort of a baker's thousand. Sombody got enamored with binary numbers and thought that 2 to the 10th power was neat, so the result,

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The students cheered in honor of Dr. Baker's birthday.

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The house whose roof you can see is Mr Baker's.

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The baker's is next door to the butcher's.

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Usage Notes

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In some senses, baker's is marked as rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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