pizzeria
[peet-suh-ree-uh]
noun
a restaurant, bakery, or the like, where pizzas are made and sold.
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Origin of pizzeria
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Contemporary Examples of pizzeria
I remember the rush when I even got close to an Asteroids game in an arcade or a pizzeria.
He and a neighbor friend worked for a time in a pizzeria in a nearby town.
Gunfire suddenly erupted and his aunt hustled him and his cousin into the safety of a pizzeria.
Then he opened a pizzeria, which became a neighborhood hotspot.
I was a character called Mark Payne, who was a weird waiter who worked at a Pizzeria Uno.
pizzeria
noun
Word Origin for pizzeria
C20: from Italian, from pizza + -eria -ery
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