- pronunciation:
- paI
- features:
- Homophone Note, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition: |
A pie is a food that is baked in a round dish in an oven. It has a crust made of a flour dough, and the crust is filled with fruit or other types of filling. Many pies are sweet, like apple pie or cherry pie, but some pies, like meat pies, are not.
Every year on Thanksgiving, my mother likes to make a pie for dessert. She will usually make either an apple pie or a pumpkin pie.
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| related words: |
cake |
The words
pie and
pi (a mathematical value) sound alike but have different meanings.