Cake

Quick meaning: Cake is a noun meaning A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

a johnnycake

a cake of soap

a cake of sand

an oatmeal cake

Word Forms

• cakes
• caking
• caked

Synonyms for cake

Depending on context, synonyms include gateau, pastry, block, bagatelle, waltz, breeze.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include coat, bar, patty, doughnut, pudding, fruitcake.

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