baker's

See also: bakers, Bakers, and bakers'

English

Noun

baker's

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

Noun

baker's (plural bakers')

1. A shop where bread and other baked food is sold.

Synonyms

• bakery

Translations

bakery — see bakery

Adjective

baker's (not comparable)

1. (rare, with numbers or quantities) Slightly supernumerary; a little more than. (Derived from baker's dozen.)
   • 1915, House & Garden, page 55:

     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.

   • 1953, Charles Landery, Whistling for a Wind, page 93:

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

   • 1985, Carole Boggs Matthews, Martin S. Matthews, Word Processing for the IBM PC and PCjr and Compatible Computers: A Step-by-step Guide for the Hundreds of Thousands who are Buying, Or are Thinking about Buying an IBM PC, IBM PCjr, Or One of the Compatible Computers, McGraw-Hill Companies, page 108:

     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, 1,024, stuck. Most people could care less, once they understand they are getting a little more than they […]

Anagrams

• Abreks, Brakes, basker, brakes, breaks