"angel's food cake" meaning in English

See angel's food cake in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: angel's food cakes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} angel's food cake (countable and uncountable, plural angel's food cakes)
  1. Alternative form of angel food cake. Tags: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: angel food cake
    Sense id: en-angel's_food_cake-en-noun-iFMNHpvm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for angel's food cake meaning in English (2.2kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "angel's food cakes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "angel's food cake (countable and uncountable, plural angel's food cakes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "angel food cake"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1879 May 29, The Memphis Evening Herald, volume IV, number 127 (whole 565), Memphis, Tenn., page [4], column 3",
          "text": "Angel’s Food Cake. For sale at Podesta, Malatesta & Co.’s, 252 Main street.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Harold Norse, Memoirs of a Bastard Angel, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc., page 396",
          "text": "Again, as we sat on the terrasse of the Café de Paris, where he was eating a large slice of angel’s food cake and drinking coffee, I mentioned that I was broke.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Ed Cray, “A Certain Amount of Respect”, in Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, part I (The Last Progressive), page 61",
          "text": "Oldest daughter Virginia recalled with pride that her mother’s angel’s food cakes and her fudgelike penuche were special favorites at charity bake sales and raffles for church and schools.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Anthony Bruno, Double Espresso, Forge, page 96",
          "text": "He casually flipped the page and found a slice of angel’s food cake sitting in a puddle of raspberry sauce.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, John T. Edge, “Sweet and Sacred”, in A Gracious Plenty, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 266",
          "text": "“If you want a slice of angel’s food cake, you’ll have to finish your greens,” came the call from parents.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of angel food cake."
      ],
      "id": "en-angel's_food_cake-en-noun-iFMNHpvm",
      "links": [
        [
          "angel food cake",
          "angel food cake#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "angel's food cake"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "angel's food cakes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "angel's food cake (countable and uncountable, plural angel's food cakes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "angel food cake"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1879 May 29, The Memphis Evening Herald, volume IV, number 127 (whole 565), Memphis, Tenn., page [4], column 3",
          "text": "Angel’s Food Cake. For sale at Podesta, Malatesta & Co.’s, 252 Main street.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Harold Norse, Memoirs of a Bastard Angel, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc., page 396",
          "text": "Again, as we sat on the terrasse of the Café de Paris, where he was eating a large slice of angel’s food cake and drinking coffee, I mentioned that I was broke.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Ed Cray, “A Certain Amount of Respect”, in Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, part I (The Last Progressive), page 61",
          "text": "Oldest daughter Virginia recalled with pride that her mother’s angel’s food cakes and her fudgelike penuche were special favorites at charity bake sales and raffles for church and schools.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Anthony Bruno, Double Espresso, Forge, page 96",
          "text": "He casually flipped the page and found a slice of angel’s food cake sitting in a puddle of raspberry sauce.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, John T. Edge, “Sweet and Sacred”, in A Gracious Plenty, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 266",
          "text": "“If you want a slice of angel’s food cake, you’ll have to finish your greens,” came the call from parents.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of angel food cake."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "angel food cake",
          "angel food cake#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "angel's food cake"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.