noun
baking
BAY-kihng
noun
1
The activity of cooking food, especially bread, cakes, or pastries, using dry heat in an oven.
"Baking is her favourite way to relax after a stressful week."
"The recipe calls for thirty minutes of baking at a low temperature."
adj
1
Extremely hot, as if being cooked in an oven.
"It was a baking afternoon, with barely a breath of wind."
How to Use Baking
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishMaking food in an oven, or (informally) describing very hot weather.
Common pairings
baking tray
baking heat
home baking
Word Forms
bakings plural
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Etymology
From Middle English bakynge, formed from bake plus the suffix -ing.