cheesecake
/ˈt͡ʃiːzˌkeɪk/US/ˈt͡ʃizˌkeɪk/
cheesecake noun: a pie made of sweetened and flavoured cottage cheese or cream cheese, eggs and milk on a crunchy base.
Noun
cheesecake (countable and uncountable, plural cheesecakes)
- A pie made of sweetened and flavoured cottage cheese or cream cheese, eggs and milk on a crunchy base.
- Cheesecake is an especially delicious dessert.
- A pie made of cream, eggs and milk (somewhat resembling the modern American chess cake).
- Imagery of scantily clad, sexually attractive young women; pin-ups.
- Company policy forbids displaying cheesecake in the locker rooms.
- She was turning back toward the cameraman when she caught the pose of the filing clerk who was sitting on the corner of the desk with her skirt over her knees, her toes pointed down so that her crossed legs showed to advantage.
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- Synonyms:
- leg art
cheesecake meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
cheesecake in Hindi
- dessert food
- चीज़केक cīzkek
cheesecake in Tamil
- dessert food
- மாப்பணியார வகை māppaṇiyāra vakai
cheesecake in Marathi
- चीजकेक
cheesecake in Urdu
- چیزکیک
More languagesFewer languages
- cheesecake in Bengali
- চিজকেক
- cheesecake in Telugu
- వకతరహా మిఠాయి vakatarahā miṭhāyi
- cheesecake in Malayalam
- ചീസ്കേക്ക്
- cheesecake in Kannada
- ಚೀಜ಼್ಕೇಕ್ cīzkēk
- cheesecake in Punjabi
- ਚੀਜ਼ਕੇਕ
- cheesecake in Gujarati
- ચીઝકેક
- cheesecake in Nepali
- चिजकेक, चीजकेक
- cheesecake in Arabic
- كَعْكَة الْجُبْنِ, تْشِيز كَيْك tšīz kayk
- cheesecake in Malay
- kek keju
- cheesecake in Indonesian
- cheesecake, kue keju
- cheesecake in Persian
- کیک پنیر keyk panir, چیز کیک čiz keyk
- cheesecake in Vietnamese
- bánh kem, bánh pho mát
Examples of cheesecake in a sentence
- I had scampi and chips for my main and a slice of cheesecake for dessert.
- The entire dessert menu was tempting, but I plumped for the cheesecake.
- It’s been a long time since I’ve had cheesecake.
Synonyms of cheesecake
Forms of cheesecake
| plural | cheesecakes |
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Origin of cheesecake
From Middle English chesekake; equivalent to cheese + cake. Compare chess cake.
Words formed from cheesecake
Questions about cheesecake
- What does cheesecake mean?
- Cheesecake means a pie made of sweetened and flavoured cottage cheese or cream cheese, eggs and milk on a crunchy base.
- What is cheesecake in Hindi?
- Cheesecake in Hindi is चीज़केक (cīzkek). See Cheesecake meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cheesecake?
- Cheesecake is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cheesecake?
- Cheesecake is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃiːzˌkeɪk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cheesecake?
- The plural of cheesecake is cheesecakes.
Words near cheesecake in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cheesecake (page history and authors); cheesecake (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cheesecake (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cheesecake (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cheesecake (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cheesecake (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cheesecake (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cheesecake (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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