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lasagna

lasagna

60 1.7
A baked dish made of layers of flat pasta, sauce, cheese, and usually meat or vegetables
  • noun
  • /ləˈzɑːnjə/
  • US
translation icon : lasaña
  • After a long day, I love to relax with a warm slice of lasagna.
  • make lasagna
  • bake lasagna
  • eat lasagna

I don't like cats much and I sure do like lasagna.

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Examples

  • Gail grabbed a towel to take the lasagna out of the oven.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • I made your favorite vegetarian lasagna.

  • - I made lasagna once.

  • Now, obviously in lasagna it needs cheese.

  • When I ask what she knows how to cook, she tells me lasagna.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • The chef has prepared two pans of lasagna for a dinner special.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Anna had the vegetarian lasagna, it was so good and Eduardo had fish and chips.

  • So I got this microwavable lasagna that looks very appetizing.

  • Dinner was wonderful: huge platters of lasagna, soft hot rolls with sweet butter, and salad for greenery.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • We're going to be making matzo lasagna and apricot matzo balls as a side dish.

Synonyms

pasta
vslasagna
255 1.0

Food made from wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, shaped into pieces and boiled, often served with sauce

is a layered baked dish made from flat sheets and layered with sauce
pasticcio
vslasagna
8.3

A baked pasta dish with meat and sauce like a casserole

is a layered baked dish using flat sheets of pasta and cheese

How Filling

casserole
54 2.8
lasagna
  • US
60 1.7
pasta
255 1.0
soup
733 1.0
salad
550 1.0

Surface Forms

lasagna singular
lasagnas plural

Etymology

The word lasagna for the baked dish comes from the same Italian lasagne and the old Greek laganon meaning 'flat sheet', which explains why the dish is made of layers of flat pasta, sauce, and cheese.