"soul-cake" meaning in All languages combined

See soul-cake on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: soul-cakes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} soul-cake (plural soul-cakes)
  1. Alternative form of soul cake Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: soul cake
    Sense id: en-soul-cake-en-noun-O6UsAFwy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "soul-cakes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "soul-cake (plural soul-cakes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "soul cake"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1869 June 26, “Griddle”, in Notes and Queries, volume 78, number 3, page 602:",
          "text": "The griddle-cake mentioned by your correspondent as being made on All- hallows Eve is, I suppose, the same as the soul-cake.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1882 December, J.L.W., “Soul, Soul, For a Soul-cake!”, in St. Nicholas, volume 10, number 2, page 93:",
          "text": "The \"Soul-cake,\" however, was rather a Halloween celebration than a Christmas-tide usage.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1930, New Catholic World - Volume 132, page 213:",
          "text": "The older forms of request are interesting as they show pre-Reformation Catholic phraseology, for in return for the cakes, prayers were apparently offered for the donor's soul: \"A soul-cake; a soul-cake, have mercy on all Christian souls, for a soul-cake.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Montague Summers, The Vampire in Lore and Legend:",
          "text": "I have been told that a century ago, in some parts of England, Wiltshire and Dorset were named, on or just after the feast of SS Simon and Jude, 28th October, there was made a kind of fairing, buns in the shape of men and women with currants for the eyes, and it seems quite possible that these were the traditional soul-cake.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of soul cake"
      ],
      "id": "en-soul-cake-en-noun-O6UsAFwy",
      "links": [
        [
          "soul cake",
          "soul cake#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "soul-cake"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "soul-cakes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "soul-cake (plural soul-cakes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "soul cake"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1869 June 26, “Griddle”, in Notes and Queries, volume 78, number 3, page 602:",
          "text": "The griddle-cake mentioned by your correspondent as being made on All- hallows Eve is, I suppose, the same as the soul-cake.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1882 December, J.L.W., “Soul, Soul, For a Soul-cake!”, in St. Nicholas, volume 10, number 2, page 93:",
          "text": "The \"Soul-cake,\" however, was rather a Halloween celebration than a Christmas-tide usage.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1930, New Catholic World - Volume 132, page 213:",
          "text": "The older forms of request are interesting as they show pre-Reformation Catholic phraseology, for in return for the cakes, prayers were apparently offered for the donor's soul: \"A soul-cake; a soul-cake, have mercy on all Christian souls, for a soul-cake.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Montague Summers, The Vampire in Lore and Legend:",
          "text": "I have been told that a century ago, in some parts of England, Wiltshire and Dorset were named, on or just after the feast of SS Simon and Jude, 28th October, there was made a kind of fairing, buns in the shape of men and women with currants for the eyes, and it seems quite possible that these were the traditional soul-cake.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of soul cake"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "soul cake",
          "soul cake#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "soul-cake"
}

Download raw JSONL data for soul-cake meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.