madeira cake

1. 1.

   a rich sponge cake with close texture; intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine

   SynonymsMadeira sponge

   Broadersponge cake

Questions about madeira cake

What does madeira cake mean?

madeira cake means "a rich sponge cake with close texture; intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine".

What is another word for madeira cake?

Close synonyms include Madeira sponge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is madeira cake a common word?

madeira cake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.