WEDDING CAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wedding cake mean? 

• WEDDING CAKE (noun)
  The noun WEDDING CAKE has 1 sense:

1. a rich cake with two or more tiers and covered with frosting and decorations; served at a wedding reception

  Familiarity information: WEDDING CAKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEDDING CAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rich cake with two or more tiers and covered with frosting and decorations; served at a wedding reception

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

bridecake; wedding cake

Hypernyms ("wedding cake" is a kind of...):

cake (baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat)

 Context examples 

And speaking of gratitude reminds me to mention that you may thank Hannah for saving your wedding cake from destruction.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Of our being very sociably and simply happy (always in a dream though); and of Jip's having wedding cake, and its not agreeing with him afterwards.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding cake of the ceiling—and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)