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l-uh-ZAN-y-uh/ləˈzænjə/

Lasagne is an Italian dish of pasta sheets, meat or vegetable sauce, and cheese, baked in the oven — British spelling. Often uncountable: some lasagne, a slice of lasagne; a lasagne can mean one dish. Spaghetti is long thin pasta, not sheets. American spelling is often lasagna — same food. Not a salad.

Meaning

An Italian dish of pasta sheets, sauce, and cheese, baked in the oven (British spelling).

Examples

• “We had lasagne for dinner.”
• “The lasagne needs twenty minutes more.”
• “Would you like some lasagne?”

Good to know

British lasagne. Often uncountable: some lasagne. Contrast: spaghetti (thin pasta). US: lasagna.

Near in meaning

lasagna

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