Meanings
nountorte (countable and uncountable, plural tortes or torten)
- countableuncountableA rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or gâteau).
The football discussion had cut off as soon as Lacey entered the room. Now they just sat silently eating torte and sipping tea.
1994, Shanna Swendson, chapter 3, in Runaway Hearts (An Avalon Romance), New York, N.Y.: Avalon Books, →ISBN, page 321 more example
Call Natalie at Glorious Foods and tell her no for the 40th time. No! I don't want dacquoise. I want tortes filled with warm rhubarb compote.
2006, Aline Brosh McKenna, Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada, spoken by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep)
Origin
- GermanTorte
- Englishtorte
Borrowed from German Torte. Cognate to tart. Doublet of torta.
More words from German
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech dort
- dorta rich, dense cake
Finnish kakku
- kakkua rich, dense cake
German Torte
- Tortea rich, dense cake
Hungarian torta
- tortaa rich, dense cake
Japanese トルテ
- トルテ (torute)a rich, dense cake
Korean 토르테
- 토르테 (toreute)a rich, dense cake
Latvian torte
- tortea rich, dense cake
Polish tort
- torta rich, dense cake
Portuguese torta
- tortaa rich, dense cake
Russian торт
- торт (tort)a rich, dense cake
Slovak torta
- tortaa rich, dense cake
Swedish kaka
- kakaa rich, dense cake
Ukrainian торт
- торт (tort)a rich, dense cake
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with torte
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Anagrams
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APA
torte. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/torte
MLA
“torte.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/torte. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “torte,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/torte.
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