pizza Definition
☆ pizza (pēt′sə)
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.
Etymology: It, prob. substitution of pizza, point, edge, for ModGr pitta, cake
pizza Usage Examples
Possessives
domino: Domino's pizza with licensed brokers presence of mind.
Converse of object
- bake: Used by a top pizza restaurant chain, this pan is great for baking fresh pizzas.
- eat: I ate the pizza watching an Al Murray DVD.
Adjective modifier
- wood-fired: Offerings includes breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, bar snacks, cocktails, wood-fired pizzas and pastas.
- take-away: A round of drinks down the pub, a take-away pizza, a CD maybe or perhaps a few pairs of socks.
- homemade: The whole family pitches in to make homemade pizza from scratch, with all their favorite toppings.
- frozen: This giant double-sided poster highlights multicultural pizza ideas and the production process for frozen pizzas.
- home-made: Delicious home-made pizzas put most fancy Italian sit down joints to shame, at a fraction of the price.
- takeaway: Based near Radlett in Hertfordshire, Fleet Support looks after the 1200 mopeds and 65 Smart cars that deliver takeaway pizzas to our customers.
Modifies a noun
- topping: Now you can add whichever pizza toppings you like.
- parlor: In this case, her location is now a pizza parlor.
- dough: I also use it a lot to make pizza dough, which has fabulous results.
- parlor: Find a barrier separating land from water, such as the one by the pizza parlor.
- takeaway: I ended the night talking rubbish about the life science market in a small pizza takeaway in a Yorkshire market town.
- oven: I've built a site for a friend who sells pizza ovens.
Noun used with modifier
- takeaway: Being in France, we got a takeaway pizza!
- gourmet: Pastas, gourmet pizzas and tempting desserts compliment steaks, seafood and fresh fish.
- vegan: Other companies may well produce vegan pizzas -- just watch out that there's no milk or milk proteins in the base.
- seafood: I had a seafood pizza here, which was superb.
- cheese: It's cheesier than a cheese pizza with double extra cheese, and I always end up giggling to myself when watching this.

