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pies

/paɪz/

pies is the plural of pie.

pies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pie.

pies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pi.

Meaning of pie

Noun

pie (countable and uncountable, plural pies)

  1. A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)
    • The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
  2. Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
    • Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.
  3. (Northeastern, US) A pizza.
  4. A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.
  5. (figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
    • It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. But when the pie is shrinking, social groups are more likely to turn on each other.2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “Why It’s Time to Worry”, in Newsweek
    Synonyms:
    cake
  6. An especially badly bowled ball.

See all 16 meanings of pie

Meaning of pi

Verb

pi (third-person singular simple present pies, present participle piing, simple past and past participle pied)

  1. To spill or mix printing type.

See all 9 meanings of pi

Noun capitalized: PIEs

PIEs

  1. (plural) plural of PIE

Proper noun capitalized: Pies

Pies

  1. (informal, Australian rules football) the Collingwood Football Club

Origin of pies

Clipping of Magpies.

Phrases with pies

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Words that rhyme with pies

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about pies

What does pies mean?
Pies means the Collingwood Football Club.
What is pies the plural of?
Pies is the plural of pie.
What part of speech is pies?
Pies can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pies?
Pies is pronounced /paɪz/.

Words near pies in the dictionary

  1. Piersols
  2. Pierson
  3. pierst
  4. pierwise
  5. pieróg
  6. pies
  7. pies off
  8. pieshop
  9. pieshops
  10. Pieske
  11. piesmatid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pies (page history and authors); PIEs (page history and authors); Pies (page history and authors); pie (page history and authors); pi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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