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Pizza vs Lasagna - What's the difference?

pizza | lasagna |

As nouns the difference between pizza and lasagna

is that pizza is a baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit while lasagna is a flat sheet of pasta.

pizza

English

Alternative forms

(wikipedia pizza) * pitza (South African English)

Noun

  • (uncountable) A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit
    • a slice of pizza
    a pizza pie
    Want to go out for pizza tonight?
  • (countable) A single instance of this dish
    • He ate a whole pizza !
    Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner?

    Usage notes

    * In phrases like (term) and (term), (term) refers to the toppings.

    Synonyms

    * pizza pie * pie

    Derived terms

    * pizza bone * pizza cutter * pizza face * pizza man * pizza parlor * pizza puff * pizza wheel * pizzeria * sheet pizza

    lasagna

    English

    (wikipedia lasagna)

    Alternative forms

    * lasagne

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A flat sheet of pasta.
  • An Italian baked dish comprising layers of such pasta with (usually) bolognese and bechamel sauce.

    • Usage notes

    * In Italian, lasagna'' refers to one sheet of pasta and its plural form, ''lasagne , refers to the dish with several layers. This distinction is rarely observed in English. * When the dish is referred to as lasagne'' (rather than ''lasagna''), ''lasagnes is sometimes found as the plural form, referring to multiple dishes or varieties.

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