Neapolitan
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- adjective
- /niˈɑːpəlɪtən/
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napolitano
- She ordered a slice of Neapolitan pizza topped with fresh basil and mozzarella.
- Neapolitan pizza
- Neapolitan ice cream
- Neapolitan ice
It's going to be your Neapolitan cheese pizza.
- It's going to be your Neapolitan cheese pizza.
- Literally, Dia says with some Neapolitan ice cream.
Examples
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Being Neapolitan, Massimo Ranieri is today universally considered the "heir" of the Neapolitan theatre, one of the "richest" on earth.
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The gelato shop offered a rich Neapolitan flavor that mixed chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.
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It's like Neapolitan ice cream.
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Did he think the Neapolitan girls were beautiful?
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It's going to be your Neapolitan cheese pizza.
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We love pizza, and if there is a chance to have real Neapolitan pizza close to home, we're on it.
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Frankie is singing an old Neapolitan song.
Fiction book (1990) -
Individual slices of Neapolitan ice cream surrounded the cake like striped bricks.
Fiction book (2001) -
Guitarists stroll by, singing sentimental Neapolitan ballads.
Fiction book (1994) -
For dessert, they served Neapolitan ice cream that reminded him of his childhood in Italy.
Compounds
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Ice cream with three or more side-by-side layers of different flavors like vanilla, chocolate and strawberry
Surface Forms
Morphology
Neapolitan = Naples (semi-transparent) = neapol + itan
Indicates relation to Naples; the meaning is place-related and thus generally recognizable, but the formation involves historical/foreign morphology not transparently analyzable by learners.
Etymology
Neapolitan as an adjective comes from the city name Naples, which is Napoli in Italian, and the ending -an means 'related to' a place. So Neapolitan describes things 'from' Naples, like pizza, music, or art.