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COFFEE CAKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coffee cake mean?
• COFFEE CAKE (noun)
The noun COFFEE CAKE has 1 sense:
1. a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee
Familiarity information: COFFEE CAKE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
coffee cake; coffeecake
Hypernyms ("coffee cake" is a kind of...):
cake (baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coffee cake"):
babka (a coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds)
coffee ring (ring-shaped coffeecake with fruits or nuts and often iced)
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