cakeEnglishOxford American Thesauruscake noun 1 a plate of cream cakes: gateau, kuchen. 2 a cake of soap: bar, tablet; block, slab, lump, cube, loaf, chunk, brick; piece.verb 1 a pair of boots caked with mud: cover, coat, encrust, plaster, spread thickly, smother. 2 the blood under his nose was beginning to cake: clot, congeal, coagulate, thicken; solidify, harden, set, dry; rare inspissate. ▷antonyms liquefy.word linkscakepatissier maker or seller of cakespatisserie shop selling cakes