cake

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

1. (transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
2. (transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.
3. (intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.

Synonyms

pastry

pie

🥧

cookie

🍪

tart

dessert

bar

biscuit

patty

slab

crust

pudding

bread

🍞

baked goods

harden

gateau

coat

🧥

clump

clot

block

congeal

thicken

sweet

tablet

set

curdle

spindle

pancake

ball up

ingot

concrete

brick

flan

piece

coagulate

clothe

block out

bathe

clod

cloak

case

blanket

batch

bake

drape

doughnut

🍩

carpet

éclair

encase

encrust

disguise

Translations

gâteau

torta

🥧

Kuchen

🥧

pastel

tarta

🥧

bolo

🍰

torta

pastís

🥧

koek

🍪

taart

🥧

cake

Torte

kek

🍰

κέικ

Pronounced as (IPA)

/keɪk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: cake

Cognate with Norwegian: kake

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kakǭ
Old Norse kakabor.
Middle English cake
English cake
From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca (pastry).

Sentences

She expects that her birthday cake should be pink , not purple .