cake
/keɪk/
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Translation
A sweet, soft food made from flour, eggs, and sugar and baked in an oven.
Word origin
From Old Norse kaka, a word for a small baked lump of dough.
- Origin
- Old Norse
- Root
- kaka
Grammar
Gender
Pluralcakes
Examples
birthday .
"Cake" is one sweet, soft food.
.
"Cakes" is the plural, meaning more than one cake.
slice .
Here "cake" is the sweet food I want to eat.
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