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# pizza

noun (pizza, pizzas)

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

## Everyday

A pizza is a flat round bread baked with tomato, cheese and other toppings on top. It comes from Italy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#m1)

### In the lessons

a thing counted and bought, and a whole cut into equal slices; often used for fractions and sharing; in everyday life: pizza night, ordering pizza, toppings like ham, mushrooms or pineapple; in maths: a pizza drawn as a circle split into equal parts shows fractions

### Examples

- A pizza is cut into 8 slices. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#x1)
- Tom ate 3 slices of the pizza. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#x2)
- They ordered 4 pizzas for 12 children. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#x3)
- Each pizza costs 9 dollars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#x4)
- We had pizza for dinner on Friday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#x5)
- What toppings do you like on your pizza? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#x6)
- If you eat 2 of 8 slices, you eat a quarter of the pizza. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#x7)
- Pizza comes from Italy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pizza/#x8)

### Note

Often a whole split into equal parts: the number of slices tells the denominator. Trap: count whole pizzas and slices separately; 2 pizzas of 8 slices make 16 slices. Trap: half of a big pizza is more than half of a small one. Pronounced «PEET-sa».

## On Mova

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