roast beef

See also: roastbeef, Roastbeef, and roast-beef

English

Roast beef

Alternative forms

• roastbeef

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

roast beef (countable and uncountable, plural roast beefs)

1. Beef cooked by roasting.
2. A cut of beef that has been roasted.
   • 2000, Phyllis-Terri Gold, Saving Grace: A Spiritual Love Story‎^[1], page 51:

     I tell the waiter, 'We'll have two roast beefs, one well-done, the other medium rare.'

   • 2008, Red Jordan Arobateau, Leader of the Pack, page 136:

     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.

   • 2010, Mariana De Saint Phalle, Mariana's Letters, page 94:

     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.

3. A cut of beef intended for roasting.
   • 1999, Michael Pearson, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx, page 152:

     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.

   • 2009, Carole M. Counihan, A Tortilla Is Like Life: Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, page 80:

     We had a freezer up until maybe two years ago. We used to pack a lot of roast beefs.

4. A portion of roasted beef.
   • 2006, Allen Rosenshine, Funny Business: Moguls, Mobsters, Megastars, and the Mad, Mad World of the Ad Game, page 117:

     Because there, in the middle of the table, among the roast beefs on rolls, […]

Derived terms

• roast beef curtains
• roast-beef plant

Descendants

• → French: rosbif
  • → Catalan: rosbif
  • → English: rosbif
  • → Portuguese: rosbife
  • → Russian: ро́стбиф (róstbif)
  • → Turkish: rozbif
• → German: Roastbeef
• → Greek: ροστ μπιφ (rost bif)
• → Italian: rosbif
• → Japanese: ローストビーフ (rōsutobīfu)
• → Korean: 로스트비프 (roseuteubipeu)
• → Polish: rostbef
• → Spanish: rosbif
• → Swedish: rostbiff

Translations

Beef cooked by roasting

• Arabic: لَحْم بَقَر مَشْوِي m (laḥm baqar mašwī)
• Bavarian: Rindsbråtn m
• Bulgarian: ростбиф m (rostbif)
• Catalan: rosbif (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烤牛肉 (kǎo niúròu)

• Danish: oksesteg c, roastbeef c
• Dutch: rosbief (nl) m, roastbeef (nl) m
• Finnish: paahtopaisti (fi)
• French: rosbif (fr) m, roastbeef (fr) m
• German: Roastbeef (de) n, Rinderbraten (de) m, Rindsbraten m
• Greek: ροστ μπιφ n (rost bif), ροσμπίφ (el) n (rosmpíf)
• Ido: rosbifo (io)
• Indonesian: sapi panggang
• Irish: mairteoil rósta f
• Italian: rosbif (it) m, rosbiffe m, manzo arrosto m, manzo arrostito m, arrosto di manzo m
• Japanese: ローストビーフ (ja) (rōsutobīfu)
• Korean: 로스트비프 (roseuteubipeu)
• Plautdietsch: Rintsbroden m
• Polish: rostbef (pl) m
• Portuguese: rosbife (pt) m
• Russian: ро́стбиф (ru) m (róstbif)
• Spanish: rosbif (es) m
• Swedish: rostbiff (sv) c
• Turkish: rozbif (tr)

Anagrams

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Romanian

Noun

roast beef n (plural roast beefuri)

1. Alternative form of rosbif

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	roast beef	roast beeful		roast beefuri	roast beefurile
genitive-dative	roast beef	roast beefului		roast beefuri	roast beefurilor
vocative	roast beefule			roast beefurilor