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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

焼き菓子

Pronunciation / Transliteration: yakigashi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Baked good/ˈbeɪkt ɡʊd/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #4500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼女は自家製の焼き菓子を友達に配った。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Any food product cooked by baking, made principally from flour or meal.

    "The local bakery offers a wide selection of fresh baked goods every morning."
  2. 2

    A commercially or domestically prepared item such as bread, cake, pastry, or cookie.

    "She brought a box of assorted baked goods to the office party."

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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines the past participle of 'bake' (from Old English 'bacan', of Germanic origin) with the noun 'good' in its pluralized sense of valuable commodities or merchandise. It emerged in modern culinary and commercial lexicons to broadly categorize foods cooked by dry heat in an oven.

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