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

The Hunt brothers grew up downriver and took Detroit-style pizza to Texas, opening VIA 313 Pizza, now with 25 locations around the country. —Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 23 Oct. 2025

How You Dough’n, South Florida’s sourdough pizza sensation, is coming to Coral Springs this year. —Allison Beck, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025

Pocan fielded questions from the workers and handed out slices of Ian's pizza outside the Social Security Administration office on Madison's west side. —Jessie Opoien, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025

The fatty ground pork that makes the spreadable salume such a tasty topping for pizza and pasta melts when it is heated up in a pan, blooming the Calabrian chile in the sausage’s own fat. —Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 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"