Cake

/keɪk/ · noun

Meaning

A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing..

Definitions by Sense

1. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
2. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
4. A block of any various dense materials.
5. (slang) Ellipsis of piece of cake: a trivially easy task or responsibility.
6. (slang) Money.
7. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
8. (slang) A pair of buttocks, especially one that is exceptionally plump or full.

Example Sentences

On Monday afternoon, Ronya attends a birthday party and eats cake whenever cake is presented to her.

an oatmeal cake

a johnnycake

buckwheat cakes

a cake of soap

a cake of sand

Cakes of rustling ice come rolling down the flood.

Now that I escape, sleepwalk awake / Those who could relate know the world ain't cake

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Antonyms for cake

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Word Forms

• cakes
• caking
• caked

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