Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pancake \Pan"cake`\, n.
   A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a
   griddlecake; a flapjack. ``A pancake for Shrove Tuesday.''
   --Shak.

Source : WordNet®

pancake
     n : a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
         [syn: {battercake}, {flannel cake}, {flannel-cake}, {flapcake},
          {flapjack}, {griddlecake}, {hotcake}, {hot cake}]