Meaning

9 senses
  1. A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:

    (England, countable, uncountable)An thin batter cake similar to a crepe, typically unleavened.

    Pfannkuchen, Eierkuchen, Palatschinken

    блинblin, ола́дьяoládʹja, нали́стникnalístnik

    млине́цьmlynécʹ, ола́докoládok, нали́сникnalýsnyk

    a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

  2. (Australia, Canada, Scotland, US, countable, uncountable)A leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.

    Pancake

  3. (uncountable)A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.

  4. (countable)A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.

  5. (countable)Anything very thin and flat.

    pancake lens

  6. (uncountable)Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.

  7. (countable, slang)A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.

  8. (countable)A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.

  9. (US, countable, dated, slang)An attractive young woman.

Examples

204 sentences
  1. Tom made pancakes for all of us.

    Том приготував млинці для всіх нас. — lingvokrolik

    deTom machte für uns alle Pfannkuchen. — wolfgangth

  2. We made pancakes for breakfast.

    Ми зробили млинці на сніданок. — zinova

    ruНа завтрак мы сделали блины. — las

    deWir haben Pfannkuchen zum Frühstück gemacht. — MUIRIEL

  3. I made pancakes for breakfast.

    Я зробила на сніданок млинці. — deniko

  4. Tom made pancakes for breakfast.

    Том зробив на сніданок млинці. — deniko

  5. I made pancakes.

    Я зробив млинці. — deniko

    ruЯ испёк блины. — marafon

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
thin batter cake:
Русский
By meaning 1
thin batter cake:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
thin batter cake:
American batter cake:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake. By surface analysis,

Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake. By surface analysis, pan + cake.

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Forms

plural: pancakes

Synonyms

17 synonyms
thin unleavened batter cake:crepecrêpe
thin leavened batter cake:flapjackgriddlecakehotcakehot cakebattercakeflitterfritterAmerican pancakegriddle cakebatter cakebatty cakeflitter cake
Close in meaning

Word family

22 related words

Collocations

5 patterns
  • made pancakes for
  • made pancakes
  • pancakes for breakfast
  • ate pancakes
  • some pancakes

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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