pizza

noun

piz·​za ˈpēt-sə 

: 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

pizzalike

ˈpēt-sə-ˌlīk 

adjective

Examples of pizza in a Sentence

We ordered a pizza for supper.

I ordered pizza for supper.

a slice of pepperoni pizza

Recent Examples on the Web

Players choose a card, which offers a category like pizza toppings or cartoons, and take turns shouting out a word that fits the category and corresponds to a letter on the board that hasn’t already been used. —Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025

New Year’s Eve on the couch with pizza, watching videos about sea creatures. —Rebecca Soffer, Time, 4 Dec. 2025

BarbaCelli’s is a brick-oven restaurant known for its pizzas and sandwiches, with a menu that draws on recipes and wisdom passed down from the owners’ grandmothers. —Lauren Jones, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2025

The pizza dough was so fluffy and porous on the inside, almost like focaccia. —Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 4 Dec. 2025

Word History

Etymology

Italian, perhaps of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German bizzo, pizzo bite, bit, bīzan to bite — more at bite

First Known Use

1825, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

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"