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ravioli

ravioli

33 2.7
Small pasta pockets filled with meat, cheese, or vegetables and served with a sauce
  • noun
  • /ˌræviˈoʊli/
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  • For dinner, we enjoyed delicious ravioli stuffed with cheese and served in a rich tomato sauce.
  • cheese ravioli
  • stuffed ravioli
  • ravioli with sauce

But Jose, I want my traditional grandmother's ravioli.

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Examples

  • I had the creamy Squash ravioli with mushrooms and spinach and it was as delicious as it sounds.

  • Actually, the specialty of St. Louis is toasted ravioli.

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  • Yeah, he had the best ravioli in the city.

  • You are like a hungry child who is given ravioli to eat.

  • I'm going to have the ravioli.

  • You can even buy some gluten-free frozen ravioli to take home with you.

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  • Diners got to enjoy the ravioli on the side patio while watching swing dance performances.

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  • We have lobster ravioli from Alitalia.

  • Oh, we had this lovely ravioli made with parmesan, polenta and olive oil.

  • This place has a butternut squash ravioli that must be tasted before death.

Synonyms

tortellini
vsravioli
4 4.1

Small ring-shaped pasta filled with meat, cheese, or vegetables

are filled cases that are square or circular not formed into rings
cappelletti
vsravioli
1 9.2

Small pieces of pasta filled with meat or cheese and folded like little hats

are filled but stay as flat or pocket shapes instead of folded hats

How Filling

lasagna
  • US
60 1.7
stew
110 1.0
ravioli
33 2.7
pasta
255 1.0
sandwich
800 1.0
salad
550 1.0

Surface Forms

ravioli singular
raviolis plural

Etymology

Ravioli comes from the Italian raviolo, a word for a small stuffed 'pocket' or 'package'. Some people say it may be linked to a word for 'turnip' because early fillings were vegetables, but a helpful way to remember ravioli is to think of tiny pasta 'pockets' filled with cheese, meat, or vegetables, which is exactly what the word means today.