ravioli

noun

USra-vee-OH-lee/ɹæviˈoʊli/UKrav-ee-OH-lee/ˌɹæviˈəʊli/

4 meanings of ravioli

1
nouncountable or uncountable
Small square pasta parcels filled with meat, cheese, spinach, or similar ingredients.
She rolled the dough thin before sealing each ravioli around the filling.
A plate of ravioli arrived steaming under a layer of grated cheese.
2
noununcountable
A prepared dish built around filled pasta parcels, typically served in or with a sauce.
His ravioli came tossed in browned butter and crisp sage leaves.
We split a starter of ravioli before the main course arrived.
3
nouncolloquialuncountable
A dumpling or filled pasta from a non-Italian cuisine that resembles the Italian original.
The chef plated delicate pork ravioli that owed more to dim sum than to Italy.
Diners loved the spiced beet ravioli folded the way her grandmother made pierogi.
Similardumpling
4
nounplural
Plural of raviolo.
She counted out twelve ravioli and arranged them in a single layer.
Several ravioli split open as they boiled, spilling their filling into the water.
Note
An Italian plural carried into English unchanged, so the -i ending already means more than one. Its singular, raviolo, names a single large filled parcel served with its own sauce, not one small square from a plate. English also treats ravioli as a mass noun (a bowl of ravioli) and adds its own plural on top of the Italian one: raviolis.

raviolo, noun: A single large pasta parcel enclosing a filling and served in a sauce. Full entry

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The word was borrowed from Italian "ravioli".