Bake
/beɪk/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:10 ptsWWF:11 pts4 letters
Definition of Bake
noun
- The act of cooking food by baking.
- Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
- A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
- (Barbadian, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted).
- Any item that is baked.
verb
- (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.
"I baked a delicious cherry pie."
- (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
"The cake baked at 350°F."
- To be warmed to drying and hardening.
"The clay baked in the sun."
- To dry by heat.
"They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture."
- To be hot.
"I'm baking after that workout in the gym."