pizza
noun
Simple meaning
A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust usually topped before baking with tomato sauce.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
peetsuhSay the bold part a little louder.
IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈpitsə
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
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.
countable
A single instance of this dish.
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Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: 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.
Used this way, pizza is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. This is a food and cooking use: everyday in kitchens and recipes.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Where it naturally appears
- Cooking/food
- Everyday conversation
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use pizza
- “We ordered a large pizza with extra cheese for dinner last night.”
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