taart — meaning in English

English meaning

• cake noun A sweet baked dessert made from flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients.
• cobbler noun A person who repairs or makes shoes.
• gateau noun A rich cake, usually covered with icing or filled with cream or fruit.
• hag noun An ugly or frightening old woman, especially one associated with witchcraft in folklore.
• pie noun A baked dish with a pastry crust and a filling, sweet or savory.
• tart adj Having a sharp, sour taste.

Senses

taart is used for these senses in English:

• cake A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
• cobbler (US) Often preceded by a descriptive word as in apple cobbler, peach cobbler, etc.: a kind of pie, usually filled with fruit, originally having a crust at the base but nowadays generally lacking this and instead topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer.
• gateau (mostly, UK) A rich, usually iced, cake.
• hag (pejorative) An ugly old woman.
• tart A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, now typically containing jelly (US) / jam (UK) or conserve, or sometimes other fillings (chocolate, custard, egg, butter, historically even meat or other savory fillings).

cake — full definition

1. noun A sweet baked dessert made from flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients.
2. verb To coat something thickly, or to harden into a solid crusted layer.

cobbler — full definition

1. noun A person who repairs or makes shoes.
2. noun A fruit dessert with a thick, biscuit-like or cake-like topping baked over the fruit.
3. noun An iced alcoholic drink made with spirits or wine, sugar, and citrus.

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