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pasta

noun

Simple meaning

A dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient.

Pronunciation

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ˈpɑːstə

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Definition

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noun

  1. A dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient

  2. uncountable

    A dish or serving of pasta.

  3. Shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg

  4. loosely

    Any type of noodle.

  5. A copypasta (block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else, serving as a story or meme).

  6. countable

    A type of pasta.

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