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Definition cake in British English

cake noun

noun
/keɪk/
1

a sweet food made by baking a mixture that usually contains sugar, eggs, flour, and butter or oil

Example

a chocolate cake

Example

a birthday/wedding/Christmas cake

Example

Would you like a slice of cake?

Example

She was making a cake for Peter's birthday.

2

a small amount of food formed into a flat round shape and cooked

Example

rice/potato cakes

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3

a small hard block of something, especially soap

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4

used for talking about something that must be shared among several people or organizations, especially an amount of money

Example

They're worried that their slice of the cake is going to get smaller.

Example

They had to agree on ways of dividing the cake.

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Definition cake in British English