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Princeton's WordNet

  1. birthday cakenoun

    decorated cake served at a birthday party

Wiktionary

  1. birthday cakenoun

    A cake, often iced and decorated, made to celebrate a person's birthday.

Wikipedia

  1. Birthday cake

    A birthday cake is a cake eaten as part of a birthday celebration. Birthday cakes are often layer cakes with frosting served with small lit candles on top representing the celebrant's age. Variations include cupcakes, cake pops, pastries, and tarts. The cake is often decorated with birthday wishes ("Happy birthday") and the celebrant's name.

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  1. birthday cake

    A birthday cake is a cake served to celebrate someone's birthday. It is often decorated with the person's name, age, and themes related to their interests, and typically includes candles signifying their age. Traditionally, the person whose birthday it is will make a wish and blow out the candles. The type, flavor, and size of the cake vary greatly depending on cultural and personal preferences.

Wikidata

  1. Birthday cake

    The birthday cake has been an integral part of the birthday celebrations in western European countries since the middle of the 19th century, which extended to Western culture. Certain rituals and traditions, such as singing of birthday songs, associated with birthday cakes are common to many Western cultures. The Western tradition of adding lit candles to the top of a birthday cake originates in 18th-century Germany. However, the intertwining of cakes and birthday celebrations stretch back to the Ancient Romans. The development of the birthday cake has followed the development of culinary and confectionery advancement. While throughout most of Western history, these elaborate cakes in general were the privilege of the wealthy, birthday cakes are nowadays common to most Western birthday celebrations. Around the world many variations on the birthday cake, or rather the birthday pastry or sweets, exist.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of birthday cake in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of birthday cake in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of birthday cake in a Sentence

  1. Anthony Liccione:

    Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes.

  2. Heather Thalwitzer:

    I’ll let him have the birthday cake, but I’ll cringe.

  3. Greta Thunberg:

    I stand here striking from 8am until 3pm as usual ... then I'll go home, i won't have a birthday cake but we'll have a dinner.

  4. Birthday:

    You may hate candles but your birthday cake love it.


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