: a dish made typically of flattened bread dough spread with a savory mixture usually including tomatoes and cheese and often other toppings and baked
called also pizza pie
Examples of pizza in a Sentence
We ordered a pizza for supper.
I ordered pizza for supper.
a slice of pepperoni pizza
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Dan Bilefsky, HollywoodReporter, 21 Mar. 2026
Learned how to make the pizza sauce and the dough from scratch.
—CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
There will be Cajun food, pies, barbecue, soul food, Latin food, peaches and pizza.
—Alyson Rodriguez, Dallas Morning News, 20 Mar. 2026
Mark Anderson, a 36-year-old from Minnesota, allegedly showed up to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in January with a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter and, when jail guards asked for credentials, threw papers at them, according to prosecutors.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
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“Pizza.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pizza. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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pizza
noun
piz·za
ˈpēt-sə 
: a dish made typically of thinly rolled bread dough spread with a spiced mixture usually including tomatoes and cheese and often other toppings and baked
called also pizza pie
Etymology
from Italian pizza "pizza"
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