noun
pizza
PEE-tsuh
noun
1
A baked dish of flattened bread dough topped with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients.
"We ordered a large pepperoni pizza for the party."
"She likes her pizza with extra cheese and mushrooms."
How to Use Pizza
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe classic round baked bread dish topped with sauce, cheese, and toppings.
Common pairings
slice of pizza
order pizza
pizza delivery
pizza dough
Word Forms
pizzas plural, pizze plural, Pizzas plural
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Etymology
Borrowed into English in 1931 from Neapolitan Italian pizza, a word of much-debated origin possibly going back to an ancient Greek word for a flatbread or cake.