Food / A1

PEYE/paɪ/

A pie is fruit or meat cooked in pastry: apple pie, chicken pie, a piece of pie. A cake is usually sweet and from a tin; a pie has pastry, often with a top. Countable: a pie, pies. Not pi (the maths number) — same sound for some speakers.

Meaning

Fruit or meat cooked in pastry.

Examples

• “Would you like a piece of apple pie?”
• “Mum made a meat pie for dinner.”
• “Would you like pie with custard?”

Good to know

a pie / a piece of pie. Contrast: cake (no pastry lid). Types: apple pie, meat pie.

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