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# lasagne

noun (lasagne — uncountable; a lasagne, lasagnes)

«lasagne» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Lasagne is an Italian dish made of flat sheets of pasta in layers with meat or vegetable sauce and cheese, baked in an oven. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#m1)
2. Lasagne is also the name of the wide flat pasta sheets themselves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life lasagne is a family dinner, a school-dinner favourite and a dish people bring to friends who are ill or have a new baby. In maths it is used for sharing problems (cut a lasagne into equal pieces) and in science for layers. Phrases: "a slice of lasagne", "vegetable lasagne", "layers of lasagne".

### Examples

- We had lasagne for tea on Friday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#x1)
- Mum made a vegetable lasagne with spinach and cheese. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#x2)
- Grandad cut the lasagne into eight equal pieces. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#x3)
- Rock layers are stacked like a lasagne, with the oldest at the bottom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#x4)
- The lasagne was so hot that the cheese burnt my tongue. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#x5)
- Our neighbours brought round a lasagne when the baby was born. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#x6)
- You need nine lasagne sheets for three layers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/#x7)

### Note

British and Irish English usually spell it "lasagne"; American English often spells it "lasagna". Both are correct. Usually uncountable (some lasagne, a piece of lasagne), but you can say "a lasagne" for one whole dish. In a sharing problem, if a lasagne is cut into 12 equal pieces and you eat 3, you have eaten 3/12 = 1/4 of it.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «lasagne» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lasagne/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«lasagne» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lasagne.html) on Mova free.