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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pie1 /paɪ/USA pronunciation n. - Fooda crust of baked dough, filled with fruit, pudding, etc.: [countable]an apple pie.[uncountable]had apple pie for dessert.
- Fooda layer cake with a cream or custard filling: [countable]a Boston cream pie.[uncountable]Our desserts include lemon meringue pie and Boston cream pie.
- a total or whole that can be divided:[countable]They want a bigger piece of the pie.
- an activity or affair:[countable]I'm sure he had a finger in the pie.
Idioms- Idioms easy as pie, extremely easy or simple:Stealing the money was easy as pie.
- Idioms pie in the sky, [uncountable] a plan, suggestion, idea, or belief about something not likely to come true:His new tax plan is just pie in the sky.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pie1 (pī),USA pronunciation n. - Fooda baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust:apple pie; meat pie.
- Fooda layer cake with a filling of custard, cream jelly, or the like:chocolate cream pie.
- a total or whole that can be divided:They want a bigger part of the profit pie.
- an activity or affair:He has his finger in the political pie too.
- Foodpizza.
- Idioms easy as pie, extremely easy or simple.
- Idioms nice as pie, extremely well-behaved, agreeable, or the like:The children were nice as pie.
- pie in the sky:
- Idiomsthe illusory prospect of future benefits:Political promises are often pie in the sky.
- Idiomsa state of perfect happiness;
utopia:to promise pie in the sky.
- Middle English, of obscure origin, originally 1275–1325
- Birdsmagpie.
- Latin pīca, akin to pīcus woodpecker
- Old French
- Middle English 1200–50
- Printingpi2.
pie4 (pī),USA pronunciation n. - Religion(in England before the Reformation) a book of ecclesiastical rules for finding the particulars of the service for the day.
Also, pye. - 1470–80; translation of Latin pīca pie2; the allusion is obscure; compare pica1
- Currencya former bronze coin of India, the 12th part of an anna. Cf. naya paisa, paisa, pice.
- Marathi pā'ī literally, a fourth
- 1855–60
- Language VarietiesProto-Indo-European.
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