Pizza Definition

pētsə

noun

A baked Italian dish consisting of flattened bread dough covered variously with herbs, fresh vegetables, or, typically in the U.S., with tomato sauce, grated cheese, and, often, sausage, mushrooms, pepperoni, etc.

Webster's New World

(uncountable) 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.

A slice of pizza.

A pizza pie.

Want to go out for pizza tonight?

Wiktionary

(countable) A single instance of this dish.

He ate a whole pizza!

Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner?

Wiktionary

Synonyms:

Synonyms:
pizza-pie

Other Word Forms of Pizza

Noun

Singular:

pizza

Plural:

pizzas

Origin of Pizza

Italian pie, tart, pizza of Germanic origin Old High German bizzo, pizzo bite, morsel bheid- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition