cake
/keɪk/
cake noun: a rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing. Also the ellipsis of piece of cake.
Noun
cake (countable and uncountable, plural cakes)
- A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
- On Monday afternoon, Ronya attends a birthday party and eats cake whenever cake is presented to her.2025 June 13, Rhys Southan, Helena Ward, Jen Semler, “A timing problem for instrumental convergence”, in Philosophical Studies, Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- gateau
- A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
- an oatmeal cake
- a johnnycake
- A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
- buckwheat cakes
- A block of any various dense materials.
- a cake of soap
- a cake of sand
- Synonyms:
- block
- Synonym of money.
- Synonyms:
- money
- Synonym of buttocks, especially a pair that are exceptionally plump or full.
- Since I started doing squats, I've built up some serious cake.
- Synonyms:
- buttocks
- A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
- Synonym of pie, the whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided into parts.
- I am aware of the efforts made to contest the relevance of these statistics... But you cannot get away from the fact that a low gdp means a smaller national cake and that there is less wealth to go round.1979 March 31, Nicholas Henderson, Britain's Decline: Its Causes and Consequences
- Synonyms:
- pie
- A foolish person.
- "The Lord Mayor can say tart things," said Hobler to a scavenger. "Yes," replied the dustman, "he does say things that are tart, which is not to be wondered at when we know him to be a regular cake."1834, Figaro in London, volume 3, page 195
Verb
cake (third-person singular simple present cakes, present participle caking, simple past and past participle caked)
- Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
- His shoes are caked with mud.
- You will remember that Stranger Things was initially conceived as a one-off, and its success forced the Duffer Brothers to cake on endless new lore to keep the engine running.2025 December 26, Stuart Heritage, “Stranger Things season five vol 2 review – the fact that this isn’t unbearable is a miracle”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- To form into a cake, or mass.
- Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
- Once we fell asleep, and, I think, must have slept for some hours, for, when we woke, our limbs were quite stiff, and the blood from our blows and scratches had caked, and was hard and dry upon our skin.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
Also used as
cake is also the ellipsis of piece of cake.
cake is also the ellipsis of have one's cake and eat it too.
cake meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
cake in Hindi
- type of sweet dessert
- केक kek
cake in Tamil
- type of sweet dessert
- கேக் kēk
cake in Marathi
- type of sweet dessert
- केक kek
cake in Urdu
- type of sweet dessert
- کیک kek
More languagesFewer languages
- cake in Bengali
- পিঠা piṭha
- cake in Telugu
- కేక్ kēk
- cake in Malayalam
- കേക്ക് kēkkŭ
- cake in Kannada
- ಕೇಕ್ kēk
- cake in Punjabi
- ਕੇਕ kek
- cake in Gujarati
- કેક kek
- cake in Odia
- କେକ୍ kek, ପିଠା piṭhā
- cake in Sinhala
- කේක් kēk
- cake in Assamese
- পিঠা pitha, কে’ক këk
- cake in Nepali
- केक
- cake in Pashto
- کېک kek
- cake in Tagalog
- keyk
- cake in Arabic
- كَعْكَة kaʕka
- cake in Malay
- kek
- cake in Indonesian
- kue
- cake in Thai
- เค้ก kéek
- cake in Vietnamese
- bánh, bánh ngọt, bánh ga tô, bánh kem
- cake in Myanmar
- ကိတ်မုန့် kitmun.
Examples of cake in a sentence
- Look at that yummy cake! I would eat that all up!
- Would you like another piece of cake? — That I would!
- The cake was delicious: half was vanilla and half was chocolate.
Synonyms of cake
Forms of cake
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cakes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cakes |
| present participle | caking |
| past participle | caked |
| past | caked |
Origin of 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).
Words formed from cake
- 7 Up cake
- accomplishment cake
- achievement cake
- ague-cake
- Alabama Lane cake
- angel cake
- angel food cake
- angel-food cake
- angel's food cake
- angel's-food cake
- apple cake
- applesauce cake
- ash-cake
- ashcake
- ash cake
- ash-heap-cake
- baby cake
- baked in the cake
- banana cake
- Banbury cake
- barm cake
- barmcake
- bastable cake
- Battenberg cake
- battercake
- batter-cake
- beancake
- bean-cake
- bean cake
- beauty cake
- beefcake
- birthday cake
- black cake
- black forest cake
- Black Joe cake
- blackout cake
- bread cake
- breadcake
- bridecake
- bride-cake
- Brooklyn blackout cake
- bubble cake
- buckwheat cake
- bundt cake
- butter cake
- butterfly cake
- cakeage
- cake-and-arse party
- cake and arse party
- cake and gingerbread
- cake and wine
- cakebaker
- cake ball
- cake bar
- cakebox
- cake boy
- cake-bread
- cakecrumb
- cake crumbs
- cake-cutting
Phrases with cake
- cake up
- cake day
- cake mix
- cake pop
- cake tin
- cut cake
- dot cake
- gur cake
- hot cake
- mud cake
- mug cake
- oil cake
167 more phrasesFewer phrases
- pan cake
- pea cake
- rat cake
- rum cake
- war cake
- yam cake
- 7-Up cake
- cake boys
- cake days
- cake fork
- cake hole
- cake mold
- cake pops
- cake ring
- cake shop
- cake tins
- cake walk
- ciba cake
- clam cake
- clay cake
- crab cake
- crum cake
- dead cake
- dirt cake
- drop cake
- dumb cake
- dump cake
- fern cake
- fish cake
- flat cake
- Kiev cake
- king cake
- Lane cake
- lava cake
- mint cake
- moon cake
- neem cake
- plum cake
- rape cake
- rice cake
- rock cake
- rout cake
- salt cake
- seed cake
- slab cake
- soul cake
- spit cake
- suet cake
- taro cake
- wall cake
- wine cake
- Yule cake
- cake balls
- cake forks
- cake mixes
- cake molds
- cake plate
- cake rings
- cake shops
- cake slice
- cake smash
- cake stand
- cake walks
- chess cake
- crazy cake
- cream cake
- crumb cake
- dairy cake
- donut cake
- fairy cake
- Fanta cake
- fruit cake
- fudge cake
- Genoa cake
- guess cake
- heart cake
- heavy cake
- hevva cake
- Jaffa cake
- jelly cake
- jonny cake
- lardy cake
- layer cake
- lolly cake
- nappy cake
- opera cake
- patty cake
- pinch cake
- pound cake
- press cake
- prize cake
- queen cake
- Savoy cake
- sheet cake
- slava cake
- smash cake
- space cake
- sugee cake
- tatty cake
- tipsy cake
- Tunis cake
- wacky cake
- Welsh cake
- yeast cake
- zebra cake
- cake lifter
- cake number
- cake plates
- cake server
- cake slices
- cake stands
- cake urchin
- carrot cake
- cattle cake
- coffee cake
- diaper cake
- Dundee cake
- Eccles cake
- filter cake
- funnel cake
- grater cake
- icebox cake
- johnny cake
- king's cake
- kings' cake
- kokosh cake
- mangia cake
- marble cake
- oyster cake
- pepper cake
- potato cake
- radish cake
- seblet cake
- sheath cake
- simnel cake
- sponge cake
- stotty cake
- tattie cake
- turnip cake
- urinal cake
- wastel cake
- yellow cake
- cake lifters
- cake numbers
- cake servers
- cake smashes
- cake urchins
- chiffon cake
- chimney cake
- Chorley cake
- doberge cake
- easy as cake
- flannel cake
- griddle cake
- groom's cake
- kitchen cake
- Madeira cake
- oatmeal cake
- oilseed cake
- pomfret cake
- pop out cake
- pop-out cake
- queen's cake
- stottie cake
- twelfth cake
- wedding cake
- confetti cake
Words that rhyme with cake
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- slake
- stake
- wake
- sheikh
- strake
- betake
- mosaic
- blake
- fake
- jake
- opaque
- forsake
- lake
- mistake
- raik
- retake
- sake
- claik
- hake
- partake
- quake
- Spirit Lake
- steak
- ache
- remake
- spake
- tea break
- wrake
- ake
- alphamosaic
- ashake
- Choctaw Lake
- crake
- Deer Lake
- demake
- eastern green drake
- glass snake
- laik
- moonquake
- Mud Lake
- nake
- overtake
- parliament cake
- prison break
- radiopaque
- rattlesnake
- reshake
- sodaic
Questions about cake
- What does cake mean?
- Cake means a rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
- What is cake in Hindi?
- Cake in Hindi is केक (kek). See Cake meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cake?
- Cake can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce cake?
- Cake is pronounced /keɪk/.
- What is the plural of cake?
- The plural of cake is cakes.
Words near cake in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cake (page history and authors); cake (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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