victoria sponge

1. 1.

   a cake consisting of two layers of sponge cake with a jelly filling in between

   SynonymsVictoria sandwich

   Broadercake

   United Kingdom

Questions about victoria sponge

What does victoria sponge mean?

victoria sponge means "a cake consisting of two layers of sponge cake with a jelly filling in between".

What is another word for victoria sponge?

Close synonyms include Victoria sandwich. 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 victoria sponge a common word?

victoria sponge 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.