# pie

**Pronunciation:** /paɪ/ · pie

**CEFR level:** A1

**Part of speech:** noun

## Meaning

A baked dish, usually sweet, made of pastry dough enclosing a filling of fruit, meat, or vegetables.

## Examples

- The baker is famous for his delicious cherry pie.
- She ordered a slice of pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving.
- He made a savory meat pie for dinner.

## Common patterns

- apple pie — A pie with an apple filling. — We ate a warm apple pie for dessert.
- pumpkin pie — A pie with a pumpkin filling, often eaten in autumn. — She baked a delicious pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving.
- easy as pie — Extremely easy. — Fixing the leaky faucet was easy as pie.

## Collocations

- a slice of pie — Would you like a slice of pie for dessert?
- bake a pie — We decided to bake a pie from scratch.
- easy as pie — Fixing the computer was easy as pie.

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