pasta

Examples

• All

• Frieda, the pasta has no sauce.

  Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

• We ate our pizzas and our pasta and it was good.

• Pack some of that pasta up.

  Last Chance Charlene (2022)

• I know people that only eat pasta with butter.

  The Basement Yard

• I handed him the bowl of pasta to carry into the living room.

  Fiction book (1995)

• And then we had a truffle pasta, which was unreal.

• So today's lunch I'm going to make pasta because I'm lazy.

• Who ordered the pasta?

  Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)

• I love to eat pasta with marinara sauce on weekends.

• You can make a delicious salad by adding some cooked pasta to fresh vegetables.

Synonyms

N

noodle

vspasta

138 1.0

A long thin strip of pasta cooked in hot water

is the broader food category covering many shapes beyond ribbon strips

A

alimentary paste

vspasta

1 4.9

A food made from flour and water shaped into pieces like spaghetti or macaroni

is the everyday cooking word rather than a technical or formal name

Idioms

H

hasta pasta

• Informal

1 9.9

A playful informal way people say goodbye as a joke

Compounds

P

pasta salad

6 1.0

A cold dish of small cooked noodles mixed with vegetables and dressing

P

pasta sauce

5 1.0

A food put on pasta to add flavor, often made from tomatoes, cream or oil

B

bowtie pasta

1 3.2

A type of pasta shaped like a small bow tie that holds sauce well

A

authentic pasta

1 2.6

A type of pasta made in the traditional way with local ingredients

B

Bolognese pasta sauce

2.1

A rich Italian topping for pasta made with ground beef, tomatoes, and vegetables

How Filling

roast

70 1.0

stew

107 1.0

kubba

1 8.9

pasta

233 1.0

sandwich

872 1.0

salad

600 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology