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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pizzeria
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A promotional flier some one handed him, in front of a new pizzeria, two nights ago in New York.
▪ An adjoining pizzeria and restaurant under the same management offer indoor or alfresco dining.
▪ Dancing black girls writhing under the twinkling neon of a pizzeria.
▪ Dinner is served in the lakeside restaurant and lunch snacks are available from a pizzeria.
▪ Scandinavian buffet breakfast; àlacarte restaurant; pizzeria.
▪ The hotel has two main restaurants, pizzeria, pool snack bar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pizzeria

1943, likely in use in American English in restaurant names by 1930, from pizza with ending as in cafeteria.

Wiktionary
pizzeria

n. A restaurant that bakes and sells pizzas.

WordNet
pizzeria

n. a shop where pizzas are made and sold [syn: pizza shop, pizza parlor]

Usage examples of "pizzeria".

As regards the other business, at the pizzeria, Silvio and Luigi were charged in connection with the dodgy wine scam and sent down.

A heavy jolt of thunder and a flash of lightning brought the rain down in an even heavier rush and Lo Manto ducked into the first open doorway he found, nestled in between a shuttered pizzeria and a small lingerie shop.

Giancarlo Lo Manto parked his unmarked sedan on the northwest corner of East 235th Street and walked into a small pizzeria.

Although widely franchised and primarily located in suburbia, Shakey's did not truly qualify as "fast food" because most of its business was eat in, as opposed to carry out, attempting to replicate urban pizzerias, albeit with player pianos and pinball machines for the customers' entertainment.

Mackinaw City-they are fairly casual about how they spell the word up this way-was a scattered and unsightly little town, full of gift shops, motels, ice cream parlors, pizzerias, parking lots and firms operating ferries to Mackinac Island.

A brochure that I picked up by the harbor listed sixty gift shops alone and more than thirty restaurants, ice cream parlors, pizzerias and cookie stalls.

She had walked the tree-lined Cambridge streets with them, had eaten pizza and Coke alongside them, had bought clothes where they did, had listened to their music, first in snatches from passing cars, then in jukeboxes in the pizzerias, then in the dance clubs late at night.

The rusty taxi-cab clattered down the spine of the city and the driver told me what was wrong with Cuba, and we went past the silent skyscrapers, kosher pizzerias, glass-fronted banks, bagel factories, Polish gymnasiums with belt-vibrators for rent, pharmacies selling love-potions and roach-killers, and all-night supermarkets where frail young men were buying canned rattlesnake.

He spoke the English we know, the English of the banana pushcarts and the pizzerias, of the spaghetti joints and grind organs.