pasta
dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.
Other meanings
Any type of noodle.
A dish or serving of pasta.
A kind of
- dish
Kinds of pasta
- spaghetti
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "πάσσω" (to sprinkle).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pasta” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.