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cakes

/keɪks/

cakes is the plural of cake.

cakes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cake.

Meaning of cake

Noun

cake (countable and uncountable, plural cakes)

  1. 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
  2. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
    • an oatmeal cake
  3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
    • buckwheat cakes
  4. A block of any various dense materials.
    • a cake of soap
    Synonyms:
    block
  5. (slang) Synonym of money.
    Synonyms:
    money
  6. (slang) 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

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Words formed from cakes

Phrases with cakes

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Words that rhyme with cakes

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Questions about cakes

What is cakes the plural of?
Cakes is the plural of cake.
How do you pronounce cakes?
Cakes is pronounced /keɪks/.

Words near cakes in the dictionary

  1. caker
  2. cakerie
  3. cakeries
  4. cakers
  5. cakery
  6. cakes
  7. cakes and ale
  8. cakes up
  9. cakesful
  10. cakeshop
  11. cakeshops

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