spaghetti sauce
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- noun
- /spəˈɡɛti sɔs/
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salsa para spaghetti
- For dinner, I poured spaghetti sauce over the freshly cooked pasta and topped it with cheese.
- a spaghetti sauce jar
- a cup of spaghetti sauce
- a pot of spaghetti sauce
I understood how I could bring Peace of Mind to a mom in Italy with spaghetti sauce.
- I understood how I could bring Peace of Mind to a mom in Italy with spaghetti sauce.
- I have fully bought meatballs already made and I have bought sauce which isn't even like spaghetti sauce.
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You can smell the hot jalapeño peppers splitting open in my mother's spaghetti sauce.
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Oh, listen, there's some of the spaghetti sauce in the refrigerator, if you get hungry.
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I got better over the years, finally making a decent spaghetti sauce at 26.
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The scent of sage brought back the spaghetti sauce my mother used to take all day to cook.
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Suddenly, a pan of spaghetti sauce bubbles over.
Fiction book (2000) -
I learned how to make spaghetti sauce in an electric percolator.
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I had driven over to 7-Eleven to pick up some milk and spaghetti sauce for my mom.
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I recognized it as the spaghetti sauce I had made the day before, which had boiled and splashed over.
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Friends and family alike adore her spaghetti sauce, as well as her lemon meringue pies.
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I have used it in Italian dishes from eggplant parmesan to spaghetti sauce to the best homemade pizza you've ever tasted.
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Synonyms
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A sauce made from cooked tomatoes and herbs for pasta and other dishes
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A food put on pasta to add flavor, often made from tomatoes, cream or oil
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Morphology
The meaning 'a sauce served with spaghetti' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'spaghetti' (a type of pasta) with 'sauce' (a condiment). This noun–noun compositional pattern (X + sauce = sauce for X) is common across languages and follows normal English compounding, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Spaghetti sauce comes from simple Italian cooking. People made a tomato sauce to pour over long pasta called spaghetti, so the sauce became known by the pasta and now means 'a sauce served with spaghetti or other pasta'.