Food / A2

PEETS-uh/ˈpiːtsə/

A pizza is a flat, round bread with tomato, cheese, and toppings: a slice of pizza, order a pizza, a pizza restaurant. It is countable: a pizza, two pizzas; topping is what you put on it, and takeaway pizza is common in British English. Do not write “a pizza bread” — pizza is the whole dish. Pizza can be uncountable when you mean the food in general: I like pizza.

Meaning

A flat, round bread with tomato, cheese, and other food on top.

Examples

• “We ordered a pizza for dinner.”
• “Would you like another slice of pizza?”
• “They opened a pizza place on the high street.”

Good to know

a pizza / a slice of pizza. Countable for one whole pizza. order / takeaway pizza.

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