"roast beef" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: roast beefs [plural]
Etymology: From roast + beef. Doublet of rosbif, a reborrowing. Etymology templates: {{com|en|roast|beef}} roast + beef, {{doublet|en|rosbif}} Doublet of rosbif Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} roast beef (countable and uncountable, plural roast beefs)
  1. Beef cooked by roasting. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cooking, Food and drink, Meats Synonyms: roastbeef Derived forms: roast beef curtains, roast-beef plant Translations (Beef cooked by roasting): لَحْم بَقَر مَشْوِي (laḥm baqar mašwī) [masculine] (Arabic), Rindsbråtn [masculine] (Bavarian), ростбиф (rostbif) [masculine] (Bulgarian), rosbif [masculine] (Catalan), 烤牛肉 (kǎo niúròu) (Chinese Mandarin), oksesteg [common-gender] (Danish), roastbeef [common-gender] (Danish), rosbief [masculine] (Dutch), roastbeef [masculine] (Dutch), paahtopaisti (Finnish), rosbif [masculine] (French), roastbeef [masculine] (French), Roastbeef [neuter] (German), Rinderbraten [masculine] (German), Rindsbraten [masculine] (German), ροστ μπιφ (rost bif) [neuter] (Greek), ροσμπίφ (rosmpíf) [neuter] (Greek), rosbifo (Ido), sapi panggang (Indonesian), mairteoil rósta [feminine] (Irish), rosbif [masculine] (Italian), manzo arrostito [masculine] (Italian), arrosto di manzo [masculine] (Italian), ローストビーフ (rōsutobīfu) (Japanese), 로스트비프 (roseuteubipeu) (Korean), Rintsbroden [masculine] (Plautdietsch), rostbef [masculine] (Polish), rosbife [masculine] (Portuguese), ро́стбиф (róstbif) [masculine] (Russian), rosbif [masculine] (Spanish), rostbiff [common-gender] (Swedish), rozbif (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-roast_beef-en-noun-OKMtqC1d Disambiguation of Cooking: 57 14 14 14 Disambiguation of Food and drink: 92 4 0 4 Disambiguation of Meats: 82 6 6 6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 4 4 4 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 87 4 4 4 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 85 5 5 5 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 84 5 5 5 Disambiguation of 'Beef cooked by roasting': 77 6 11 6
  2. A cut of beef that has been roasted. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-roast_beef-en-noun-a7~zyHYP
  3. A cut of beef intended for roasting. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-roast_beef-en-noun-yHRWRmdw
  4. A portion of roasted beef. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-roast_beef-en-noun-SKFUIanz

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          "args": {
            "1": "ja",
            "2": "ローストビーフ",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "rōsutobīfu"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Japanese: ローストビーフ (rōsutobīfu)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Japanese: ローストビーフ (rōsutobīfu)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ko",
            "2": "로스트비프",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Korean: 로스트비프 (roseuteubipeu)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Korean: 로스트비프 (roseuteubipeu)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "rostbef",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: rostbef",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: rostbef"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "rosbife",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: rosbife",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: rosbife"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "rosbif",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: rosbif",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: rosbif"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sv",
            "2": "rostbiff",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Swedish: rostbiff",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Swedish: rostbiff"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "roast",
        "3": "beef"
      },
      "expansion": "roast + beef",
      "name": "com"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rosbif"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of rosbif",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From roast + beef. Doublet of rosbif, a reborrowing.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "roast beefs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "roast beef (countable and uncountable, plural roast beefs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Beef cooked by roasting."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Beef",
          "beef"
        ],
        [
          "roast",
          "roast"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Phyllis-Terri Gold, Saving Grace: A Spiritual Love Story, page 51",
          "text": "I tell the waiter, 'We'll have two roast beefs, one well-done, the other medium rare.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Red Jordan Arobateau, Leader of the Pack, page 136",
          "text": "But the cars & trucks held cartons of roast chickens, slabs of cheeses, loaves of bread, racks of hotdogs, case upon case of soft drinks, cases of bottled sparkling water, pies, cakes, roast beefs & baked hams.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Mariana De Saint Phalle, Mariana's Letters, page 94",
          "text": "No delicate little tidbits at these parties; there are buckets of shrimps and oysters, roast beefs and hams and tables of sweets with smiling corporate heads and their lobbyists to greet the guests.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cut of beef that has been roasted."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cut",
          "cut"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Michael Pearson, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx, page 152",
          "text": "Two or three times a week I had to deliver fifteen- or twenty-pound roast beefs to delis around the Bronx so that they could cook them and slice them up for sandwiches.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Carole M. Counihan, A Tortilla Is Like Life: Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, page 80",
          "text": "We had a freezer up until maybe two years ago. We used to pack a lot of roast beefs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cut of beef intended for roasting."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Allen Rosenshine, Funny Business: Moguls, Mobsters, Megastars, and the Mad, Mad World of the Ad Game, page 117",
          "text": "Because there, in the middle of the table, among the roast beefs on rolls,[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A portion of roasted beef."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "roastbeef"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "laḥm baqar mašwī",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "لَحْم بَقَر مَشْوِي"
    },
    {
      "code": "bar",
      "lang": "Bavarian",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Rindsbråtn"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "rostbif",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ростбиф"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rosbif"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kǎo niúròu",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "word": "烤牛肉"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "oksesteg"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "roastbeef"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rosbief"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "roastbeef"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "word": "paahtopaisti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rosbif"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "roastbeef"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Roastbeef"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Rinderbraten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Rindsbraten"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "rost bif",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ροστ μπιφ"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "rosmpíf",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ροσμπίφ"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "word": "rosbifo"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "word": "sapi panggang"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mairteoil rósta"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rosbif"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "manzo arrostito"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "arrosto di manzo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "rōsutobīfu",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "word": "ローストビーフ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "roseuteubipeu",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "word": "로스트비프"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Rintsbroden"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rostbef"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rosbife"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "róstbif",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ро́стбиф"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rosbif"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "rostbiff"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Beef cooked by roasting",
      "word": "rozbif"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "roast beef"
  ],
  "word": "roast beef"
}

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