bread maker

noun

A household appliance which makes dough from raw ingredients and in most cases can also bake it into bread.

Meanings

nounbread maker (plural bread makers)

plural bread makers · alternative breadmaker · alternative bread-maker

  1. A household appliance which makes dough from raw ingredients and in most cases can also bake it into bread.

    Synonyms: bread machine

  2. One who makes bread; a baker of bread, either non-vocationally or vocationally.

    He was a bread maker and a fishmonger.

    2015, John J. Thompson, Jesus, Bread, and Chocolate: Crafting a Handmade Faith in a Mass-Market World, Zondervan, →ISBN
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    He was being trained to make wedding cakes and sugar sculptures although, at heart, he was a bread maker.

    2015 June 16, “Bistro Le Relais dishes feature layers of flavor”, in Courier Journal

    Not to be left out, bread maker extraordinaire Eric Kayser of Maison Kayser will provide extraordinary breads to complement each cheese.

    2017 February 2, Monte Mathews, “Eat Your Way Through European Cheeses At Paris' Second Cheese Day”, in The Daily Meal, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2022

    But now a furious row has risen, as bread makers stand accused of changing the recipe rulebook into a “cheats’ charter”.

    2023 February 4, Ewan Somerville, Will Bolton, “Bakers in furious row over proper way to make a sourdough”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2023

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA household appliance which makes dough from raw ingredients and in most cases can also bake it into bread.

More synonyms by meaning

nounsomeone who bakes bread or cake

Similar
Broader
skilled workertrained worker

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 麵包機 /面包机
  • 麵包機 /面包机 (miànbāojī)household appliance which makes bread
Czech domácí pekárna
  • domácí pekárnahousehold appliance which makes bread
Dutch broodmachine, broodbakmachine
  • broodmachinehousehold appliance which makes bread
  • broodbakmachinehousehold appliance which makes bread
Finnish leipäkone
  • leipäkonehousehold appliance which makes bread
French robot boulanger, machine à pain
  • robot boulangerhousehold appliance which makes bread
  • machine à painhousehold appliance which makes bread
German Brotbackautomat, Brotbackmaschine
  • Brotbackautomathousehold appliance which makes bread
  • Brotbackmaschinehousehold appliance which makes bread
Greek αρτοπαρασκευαστής
  • αρτοπαρασκευαστής (artoparaskevastís)household appliance which makes bread
Icelandic brauðvél
  • brauðvélhousehold appliance which makes bread
Japanese ホームベーカリー, パン焼き器
  • ホームベーカリー (hōmubēkarī)household appliance which makes bread
  • パン焼き器 (pan yakiki)household appliance which makes bread
Lithuanian duonkepė
  • duonkepėhousehold appliance which makes bread
Polish wypiekacz do chleba
  • wypiekacz do chlebahousehold appliance which makes bread
Portuguese panificadora
  • panificadorahousehold appliance which makes bread
Russian хлебопе́чка
  • хлебопе́чка (xlebopéčka)household appliance which makes bread
Spanish panificadora
  • panificadorahousehold appliance which makes bread
Turkish ekmek makinesi, ekmek yapma makinesi
  • ekmek makinesihousehold appliance which makes bread
  • ekmek yapma makinesihousehold appliance which makes bread
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APA

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Chicago

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