pie in English: A food cooked in an oven, with fruit or meat inside a cover made of flour and butter. (noun)

Translation

A food cooked in an oven, with fruit or meat inside a cover made of flour and butter.

Word origin

The origin is not agreed, and two accounts are usually given.

Other proposed origins

Most often linked to pie, an old name for the magpie, a bird that collects a mixture of odd things. (pie (magpie))
Other accounts treat the Middle English word as being of unknown origin. (pie)

Gender

Pluralpies

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Here the fruit inside the pie is apple.

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A pie can hold meat instead of fruit.

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"Pie" is countable, so it can be one pie or many pies.

food

Food is anything that people or animals eat to stay alive and grow.

eat

To put food in your mouth and swallow it.

cake

A sweet, soft food made from flour, eggs, and sugar and baked in an oven.

apple

A round fruit with red or green skin that grows on a tree.

hot

Having a high heat; very warm to feel or taste.

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