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Christmas cake

Christmas cake noun: a rich fruit cake covered with marzipan and icing, traditionally eaten at Christmas.

Noun

Christmas cake (countable and uncountable, plural Christmas cakes)

  1. A rich fruit cake covered with marzipan and icing, traditionally eaten at Christmas.
    • They enjoyed music from a live saxophonist during the journey before visiting Braintree Town Hall for refreshments and Christmas cake.2021 December 29, “Network News: Music train for dementia sufferers”, in RAIL, number 947, page 19

Forms of Christmas cake

pluralChristmas cakes

Questions about Christmas cake

What does Christmas cake mean?
Christmas cake means a rich fruit cake covered with marzipan and icing, traditionally eaten at Christmas.
What part of speech is Christmas cake?
Christmas cake is a noun.
What is the plural of Christmas cake?
The plural of Christmas cake is Christmas cakes.

Words near Christmas cake in the dictionary

  1. Christmas break
  2. Christmas bush
  3. Christmas bushes
  4. Christmas cacti
  5. Christmas cactus
  6. Christmas cake
  7. Christmas cakes
  8. Christmas came early
  9. Christmas Capital of the Philippines
  10. Christmas card
  11. Christmas cards

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