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pizzeria

pizzeria

23 2.0
A place that makes and sells pizza
  • noun
  • /ˌpiːˈzɛriə/
translation icon : pizzería
  • I work at a pizzeria that serves the best pepperoni pizza in town.
  • pizzeria owner
  • local pizzeria
  • pizza at the pizzeria

One of them was at a little pizzeria in Anaheim, CA.

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Examples

  • One of them was at a little pizzeria in Anaheim, CA.

  • Straight from Sal's Famous Pizzeria up the block.

  • I work at a pizzeria.

  • Smells like a pizzeria in here.

  • So I'm sitting in this pizzeria.

  • Recently, a new pizzeria had opened on Federal Highway south of the Port of Palm Beach.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • There was nothing romantic about a pizzeria crowded with teenagers.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • After they picked up their pizza at the pizzeria, Jason and Brian rode to the park to eat.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • I'm day shift manager at the Best Pizzeria on Webster Avenue.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Terry took me to an upscale pizzeria on 45th Street where I ordered a huge deluxe slice.

    Fiction book (2000)

Synonyms

restaurant
vspizzeria
1.0

A place where people pay to eat meals prepared for them

is focused on pizzas specifically rather than general meal service
pizza parlor
vspizzeria
  • US
12 1.0

A small shop or restaurant that makes and sells pizzas

is an alternative older or regional name for the same business
pizza shop
vspizzeria
5 1.0

A place that makes and sells pizzas

is the more formal term for the same pizza-selling business

Surface Forms

pizzeria singular
pizzerias plural

Morphology

pizzeria = pizza (transparent) = pizza + eria

The meaning is directly inferable as 'place of pizza' from the base 'pizza' plus the borrowed Italian place-forming suffix '-eria', so learners can readily derive it.

Etymology

Pizzeria comes from Italian: pizza ('flat, baked food') plus the ending -eria ('a place to sell or make something'). Think of a pizzeria like a bakery but for pizzas, which is why it is a shop or restaurant where pizzas are made and sold.