- pasta tubes made from wheat flour
- (in 18th-century Britain) a dandy who affected foreign manners and style
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
mac•a•ro•ni /ˌmækəˈroʊni/USA pronunciation
n., [uncountable], pl. -nis, -nies.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Fooda kind of tube-shaped pasta made of wheat flour.
mac•a•ro•ni
(mak′ə rō′nē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -nis, -nies for 2.
- Foodsmall, tubular pasta prepared from wheat flour.
- British Termsan English dandy of the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms, clothes, etc.
- dialect, dialectal Italian, plural of maccarone (Italian maccherone). See macaroon
- earlier maccaroni 1590–1600
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
macaroni, maccaroni /ˌmækəˈrəʊnɪ/ n ( pl -nis, -nies)
'macaroni' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
farinaceous
- mac
- macaroon
- maccaroni
- blanch
- durum wheat
- hard wheat
- macaronic
- macaroni wheat
- milanaise
- vermicelli