lasagne

Everyday

1. Lasagne is an Italian dish made of flat sheets of pasta in layers with meat or vegetable sauce and cheese, baked in an oven. tree →
2. Lasagne is also the name of the wide flat pasta sheets themselves. tree →

In the lessons

In everyday life lasagne is a family dinner, a school-dinner favourite and a dish people bring to friends who are ill or have a new baby. In maths it is used for sharing problems (cut a lasagne into equal pieces) and in science for layers. Phrases: "a slice of lasagne", "vegetable lasagne", "layers of lasagne".

Examples

• We had lasagne for tea on Friday. tree →
• Mum made a vegetable lasagne with spinach and cheese. tree →
• Grandad cut the lasagne into eight equal pieces. tree →
• Rock layers are stacked like a lasagne, with the oldest at the bottom. tree →
• The lasagne was so hot that the cheese burnt my tongue. tree →
• Our neighbours brought round a lasagne when the baby was born. tree →
• You need nine lasagne sheets for three layers. tree →

Note

British and Irish English usually spell it "lasagne"; American English often spells it "lasagna". Both are correct. Usually uncountable (some lasagne, a piece of lasagne), but you can say "a lasagne" for one whole dish. In a sharing problem, if a lasagne is cut into 12 equal pieces and you eat 3, you have eaten 3/12 = 1/4 of it.