Meaning

3 senses
  1. (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.

    a slice of pizza

    a pizza pie

    Pizza

    пи́ццаpícca

    пі́цаpíca

    Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese

  2. (countable)A single instance of this dish.

    He ate a whole pizza!

    Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner?

    Pizza

    пи́ццаpícca

    пі́цаpíca

  3. (countable, uncountable)Snowplow: a maneuver in which the tips of the skis or skates point inwards and the back ends point outwards.

Examples

1132 sentences
  1. Please help yourself to the pizza.

    Будь ласка, пригощайтесь піцою. — triantafillou

    ruПожалуйста, угощайтесь пиццей. — al_ex_an_der

    deBitte, nehmt euch Pizza. — Jelisawjeta

  2. My father likes pizza very much.

    Мій батько дуже любить піцу. — deniko

    ruМой отец очень любит пиццу. — unholywhale

    deMein Vater mag sehr gerne Pizza. — MUIRIEL

  3. I often used to eat pizza.

    Колись я часто їв піцу. — deniko

    ruРаньше я часто ел пиццу. — marafon

    deFrüher habe ich oft Pizza gegessen. — Waldelfe

  4. Didn't you know Tom loves pizza?

    Хіба ти не знав, що Том обожнює піцу? — deniko

    deWusstest du denn nicht, dass Tom supergerne Pizza isst? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. Tom said that he likes pizza.

    Том сказав, що любить піцу. — deniko

    ruТом сказал, что любит пиццу. — marafon

Translations

9 languages
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Русский
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Origin

First attested in 1931, borrowed from Neapolitan pizza (1590), the dialectal form of Byzan

First attested in 1931, borrowed from Neapolitan pizza (1590), the dialectal form of Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “cake, pie”). The Greek word is first attested in 1107 and is itself of uncertain origin.

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Forms

plural: pizzas

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese:pizza pie

Word family

84 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • slice of pizza
  • eat pizza
  • order a pizza
  • to eat pizza
  • pizza for lunch
  • like pizza
  • to make pizza
  • ordered the pizza
  • pizza for breakfast
  • pepperoni pizza
  • kind of pizza
  • delivering pizzas

See also

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