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spaghetti

/spəˈgɛdi/
/spəˈgɛti/
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Spaghetti is long, thin pasta. Spaghetti with meatballs in marinara sauce is an Italian restaurant classic.

Spaghetti is a popular Italian pasta, often served with a tomato sauce sometimes called spaghetti sauce. The Italian word spago means string, and spaghetti is the plural of spago — a description of what spaghetti looks like. Spaghetti straps are very thin shoulder straps found on dresses and summery tops. In the late 1960s, "spaghetti westerns" were movies about the Wild West, filmed in Italy and directed by Italians.

Definitions of spaghetti
  1. noun
    pasta in the form of long strings
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    type of:
    alimentary paste, pasta
    shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg
  2. noun
    spaghetti served with a tomato sauce
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    type of:
    pasta
    a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient
Pronunciation
US
/spəˈgɛdi/
UK
/spəˈgɛti/
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