donut
- noun
- B2
- Top 10000
A soft sweet cake cooked in hot oil, made either as a ring with a hole in the middle or as a round ball filled with jam.
Someone left a box of donuts in the staff kitchen.
She bit into the donut and jam ran down her chin.
I always choose the donut with pink icing and sprinkles.
He licked the sugar off his fingers after the second donut.
Common collocations: a jam donut · a ring donut · a glazed donut · a box of donuts · a donut shop
Part of: Sweets, Bread and grains
Forms
- plural
- donuts