bread maker
- noun
- /brɛd ˈmeɪkər/
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- My mom uses a bread maker to create fresh loaves of bread every week.
Examples
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With the new bread maker I bought, baking homemade bread has never been easier.
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Every Sunday, I prepare the ingredients and let the bread maker do its job while I relax.
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And so three different bread makers, all the actually the same bread maker, but there was just three of them on the table.
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We heard you like toast, so we put a bread maker in your glove compartment.
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And we've got our own bread maker which has been a real, real, real fantastic money saver.
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In the 90s: a black dining room table and chairs, a bread maker, and beige carpeting.
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Morphology
The meaning 'a machine/device that makes bread' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'bread' (the food) with 'maker' (one that makes or produces). This follows a regular noun-noun compounding pattern where the second element denotes an agent or instrument, a pattern common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Bread maker was later used for a small kitchen machine because it 'makes' bread for you: you add the ingredients and the machine mixes and bakes the loaf. That's why today bread maker also means 'a machine used for making bread automatically at home'.