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gâteau

gâteau is the alternative form of gateau.

Meaning of gateau

Noun

gateau (countable and uncountable, plural gateaux or gateaus)

  1. (UK) A rich, usually iced, cake.
    • Determined on keeping up my strength for what the night might bring, I ate heartily—enjoying every morsel, especially of the two slices of gateau I didn’t feel it wrong to take as my share, since there was still one good-sized piece left for Judy.2009, Dorothy Cannell, She Shoots to Conquer, Alibi, published 2016, →ISBN
  2. (obsolete) A dish of minced meat made up like a pudding, and boiled in a shape or mould.
    • a gateau of veal

Forms of gâteau

pluralgâteaux
pluralgâteaus

Phrases with gâteau

Questions about gâteau

What is gâteau the alternative form of?
Gâteau is the alternative form of gateau.

Words near gâteau in the dictionary

  1. Gârcin
  2. Gârcina
  3. Gârcu
  4. Gârda de Sus
  5. Gârleni
  6. gâteau
  7. gâteaus
  8. gâteaux
  9. Gällivare
  10. Gällö
  11. Gäncä

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gâteau (page history and authors); gateau (page history and authors). 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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