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Pizza

/ˈpiːt.sə/

A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit

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📖 Definitions of "Pizza"

noun

1
A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit
"Want to go out for pizza tonight?"
2
A single instance of this dish
"He ate a whole pizza!"

🔄 Synonyms of "Pizza"

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Word	Definition
pizza pienoun	(US) A pizza.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Pizza"

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Word	Definition
pizza pienoun	(US) A pizza.
pienoun	A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)
pizzerianoun	A restaurant that bakes and sells pizzas.
slicenoun	A thin, broad piece cut off.
hungry	Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
starvingnoun	starvation
quentinnoun	A male given name from Latin.
bostonnoun	The capital and largest city of Massachusetts, the informal capital of New England, and the county seat of Suffolk County.
cheese pie	—
tomato pienoun	(regional) In some Italian-American and Italian-Canadian communities, any of a number of variations of pizza consisting only or largely of dough and tomato sauce.
zanoun	(US, Canada, slang) Pizza.
deep-dish pienoun	made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit
pizzernoun	Pronunciation spelling of pizza. [(uncountable) A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.]
calzonenoun	A baked Italian turnover made of pizza dough and stuffed with tomato, cheese and other toppings.
pizza saucenoun	A tomato-based sauce poured on pizza dough before additional toppings are added.
pizza casserolenoun	An oven-baked dish including typical pizza toppings such as cheese and pepperoni.
hot pienoun	A savory pie (intended to be) served hot, especially one that is freshly baked.
pizza rollnoun	(mostly in plural) A frozen food, a bite-sized breaded pizza pocket filled with tomato sauce, cheese, etc.
pizza toastnoun	A snack made with melted cheese and other pizza toppings on toasted sliced bread rather than pizza dough.
pizza puffnoun	A dough pouch filled with the ingredients of a pizza, such as cheese, pizza sauce, sausage, and pepperoni, and usually deep-fried.