pasta sauce

noun

Any of many sauces designed to be served with pasta (and sometimes used on pizza), especially a tomato-based red sauce with herbs and spices.

“Tomatoes and basil are popular ingredients in pasta sauces.”

Similar
spaghetti sauce
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Meanings

nounpasta sauce (countable and uncountable, plural pasta sauces)

plural pasta sauces

  1. countableuncountableAny of many sauces designed to be served with pasta (and sometimes used on pizza), especially a tomato-based red sauce with herbs and spices.

    Tomatoes and basil are popular ingredients in pasta sauces.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounany of numerous sauces for spaghetti or other kinds of pasta

Similar
spaghetti sauce
Broader
sauce
Also see
spaghetti sauce

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

pasta sauce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pasta%20sauce

MLA

“pasta sauce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pasta%20sauce. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pasta sauce,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pasta%20sauce.

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