cake slice

noun

A knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpenedblade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake.

Meanings

nouncake slice (plural cake slices)

plural cake slices · alternative cake-slice

  1. A knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpenedblade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake.

    Synonyms: cake server, pie server

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cake, slice.

    The cake slices were toppled and mushed, mostly uneaten.

    2021, Hermione Hoby, Virtue, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 97

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpenedblade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake.

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Translations

Dutch taartschep
  • taartschepa knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpened blade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake
Finnish kakkulapio
  • kakkulapioa knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpened blade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake
French pelle à tarte, pelle à gâteau
  • pelle à tartea knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpened blade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake
  • pelle à gâteaua knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpened blade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake
German Kuchenheber, Tortenheber
  • Kuchenhebera knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpened blade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake
  • Tortenhebera knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpened blade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake
Hungarian tortalapát
  • tortalapáta knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpened blade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake
Icelandic kökuhnífur
  • kökuhnífura knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpened blade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake
Portuguese colher de bolo, pá de bolo
  • colher de boloa knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpened blade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake
  • pá de boloa knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpened blade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake
Russian лопа́тка для то́рта
  • лопа́тка для то́рта (lopátka dlja tórta)a knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpened blade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake
Swedish tårtspade
  • tårtspadea knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpened blade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake
Ukrainian лопа́тка для то́рта
  • лопа́тка для то́рта (lopátka dlja tórta)a knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpened blade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake
Cite this entry
APA

cake slice. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cake%20slice

MLA

“cake slice.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cake%20slice. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cake slice,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cake%20slice.

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