Meaning

2 senses
  1. A cake consisting of multiple stacked sheets of cake, held together by frosting or jam, etc.

    Sahnetorte

    cake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting

  2. A type of layering of materials, used in some nuclear bombs.

Examples

9 sentences
  1. He carefully layered the cake with buttercream.

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  2. She layered the cake with strawberry preserves.

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  3. Tom's favorite is the triple-layer chocolate cake.

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  4. I tried the layer cake of my aunt.

    deIch habe die Torte von meiner Tante probiert.

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  5. She layered the cake with whipped cream and berries.

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Translations

2 languages
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By meaning 1
type of cake:

Origin

From layer + cake, named for its appearance, coined c. 1873.

From layer + cake, named for its appearance, coined c. 1873.

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Forms

plural: layer cakes
Singularlayer cake
Plurallayer cakes

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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