Definition of "sake"

sake¹

/ˈseɪk/

noun
plural sakes
1. cause, interest or account
2. purpose or end; reason
3. the benefit or regard of someone or something
  Quotations
  When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
  But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis, […]
  2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242a-b.
4. (obsolete except in phrases) contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge
  Quotations
  And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 3:17

sake²

noun
countable and uncountable, plural sakes
1. Alternative spelling of saké