Pie (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. a 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.
  2. a layer cake with a filling of custard, cream jelly, or the like: chocolate cream pie.
  3. a total or whole that can be divided: They want a bigger part of the profit pie.
  4. an activity or affair: He has his finger in the political pie too.
  5. pizza.
Idioms
  1. extremely easy or simple.
  2. extremely well-behaved, agreeable, or the like: The children were nice as pie.
  3. pie in the sky,
    • the illusory prospect of future benefits: Political promises are often pie in the sky.
    • a state of perfect happiness; utopia: to promise pie in the sky.
noun
  1. magpie.
noun, verb (used with object), pied, pie·ing.
  1. a spelling variant of pi2.
noun
  1. (in England before the Reformation) a book of ecclesiastical rules for finding the particulars of the service for the day.
noun
  1. a former bronze coin of India, the 12th part of an anna.
abbreviation
  1. Proto-Indo-European.
noun
  1. a baked food consisting of a sweet or savoury filling in a pastry-lined dish, often covered with a pastry crust
  2. have a finger in the pie
    • to have an interest in or take part in some activity
    • to meddle or interfere
  3. illusory hope or promise of some future good; false optimism
noun
  1. an archaic or dialect name for magpie
noun, verb
  1. printing a variant spelling of pi 2
noun
  1. a very small former Indian coin worth one third of a pice
noun
  1. a book for finding the Church service for any particular day
adjective
  1. to be keen on
Pie (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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