cake
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
Other meanings
A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
A kind of
- baked goods
Kinds of cake
- birthday cake
- chocolate cake
- coconut cake
- coffee cake
- sponge cake
- wedding cake
- white cake
- spice cake
Example sentences
Word history
From Old Norse "kaka".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cake” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.