Usually means: Sweet or savory baked dough.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word pastry:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pastry: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pastry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pastry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pastry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pastry: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pastry, pastry: Wordnik
  7. pastry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pastry: Wiktionary
  9. pastry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pastry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pastry: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pastry, pastry: Dictionary.com
  13. pastry: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pastry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pastry (DHT), Pastry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pastry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pastry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pastry: Rhymezone
  19. pastry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pastry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pastry: Free Dictionary
  22. pastry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pastry: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. pastry: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pastry: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pastry, pastry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pastry: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.
noun:  (uncountable) The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.
noun:  (uncountable) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) A place where pastry is made.
noun:  (uncountable) The act or art of making pastry.
noun:  (uncountable, culinary industry) Desserts of all kinds, whether or not these incorporate the baked item made from flour and fat, or that section of a kitchen that prepares these.

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