roast beef
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roast beef
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From roast + beef. Doublet of rosbif, a reborrowing.
noun roast beefs · roastbeef
- Beef cooked by roasting.
- A cut of beef that has been roasted. I tell the waiter, 'We'll have two roast beefs, one well-done, the other medium rare.'
- A cut of beef intended for roasting. 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.
- A portion of roasted beef. Because there, in the middle of the table, among the roast beefs on rolls,[…]
Translations
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noun Beef cooked by roasting
| Español | rosbif |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 로스트비프 roseuteubipeu |
| 日本語 | ローストビーフ rōsutobīfu |
| 中文 | 烤牛肉 kǎo niúròu |
| Português | rosbife |
| Français | rosbif, roastbeef |
| Deutsch | Roastbeef, Rinderbraten, Rindsbraten |
| Italiano | rosbif, rosbiffe, manzo arrosto, manzo arrostito, arrosto di manzo |
| Ελληνικά | ροστ μπιφ rost bif, ροσμπίφ rosmpíf |
| Русский | ро́стбиф róstbif |
| العربية | لَحْم بَقَر مَشْوِي laḥm baqar mašwī |
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title = {roast beef},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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