pizza

Thân thiện

A family shares a large pizza at the dinner table.

Definition

Noun 1. A savory Italian dish: A flat, open-faced baked pie consisting of a thin layer of bread dough topped with a seasoned mixture, typically including tomato sauce and cheese, and often other ingredients like meats or vegetables.

Examples

• We ordered a large pizza for dinner.
• Do you prefer thin-crust or deep-dish pizza?
• The most popular topping for pizza is pepperoni.

Advanced Usage

• "To be pizza" (slang/informal): Used to describe something as excellent, enjoyable, or satisfying. This is a very modern, casual usage.
  • That new video game is totally pizza!
• Conceptual usage: Can be used to represent the idea of a shared, casual meal or a comfort food.
  • Friday night is always pizza and movie night at our house.

Variants and Related Words

• Pizzeria (n): A restaurant that specializes in baking and selling pizzas.
  • Let's go to the new pizzeria on Main Street.
• Pizza pie (n): A synonymous, often more informal term for pizza.
  • He ate three slices of pizza pie.

Synonyms

• Pie (in the specific context of Italian cuisine)
• Open-faced pie

Related Phrases

• Pizza party: A social gathering where pizza is the main food served.
  • The soccer team had a pizza party after winning the championship.
• Pizza slice / Slice of pizza: A single triangular portion of a whole pizza.
  • Can I have a slice of pizza?

Idioms

• As American as apple pie (variation): While not a standard idiom with "pizza," the phrase is sometimes humorously adapted to "as American as pizza pie" to reflect pizza's deep integration into American food culture, despite its Italian origins.
  • Baseball and pizza are as American as apple pie these days.

Học thuật

Noun

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• pizza pie