English Explanatory Dictionary

roast beef

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Beef cooked by roasting.
  2. A cut of beef that has been roasted.
  3. A cut of beef intended for roasting.
  4. A portion of roasted beef.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-roast beef.wav

Word forms

roast beef roast beefs roastbeef

Etymology

From roast + beef. Doublet of rosbif, a reborrowing.

Derived words

roast beef curtains roast-beef plant
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