roast beef

See also: roastbeef, Roastbeef, and roast-beef

English

Roast beef

Alternative forms

roastbeef

Etymology

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

Noun

roast beef (countable and uncountable, plural roast beefs)

Beef cooked by roasting.
A cut of beef that has been roasted.
- 2000, Phyllis-Terri Gold, Saving Grace: A Spiritual Love Story‎, 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.
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.
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
- → Russian: ро́стбиф (róstbif)
- → Turkish: rozbif
→ German: Roastbeef
→ Greek: ροστ-μπηφ (rost-bif)
→ Italian: rosbif
→ Japanese: ローストビーフ (rōsutobīfu)
→ Korean: 로스트비프 (roseuteubipeu)
→ Polish: rostbef
→ Portuguese: rosbife
→ Spanish: rosbif
→ Swedish: rostbiff

Translations

Beef cooked by roasting

Arabic: لَحْم بَقَر مَشْوِي‎ m (laḥm baqar mašwī)
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 n, Rinderbraten (de) m
Greek: ροστ-μπηφ n (rost-bif)
Ido: rosbifo (io)
Indonesian: sapi panggang
Irish: mairteoil rósta f
Italian: rosbif (it) 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

forebeats

Romanian

Noun

roast beef n (plural roast beefuri)

Alternative form of rosbif

Declension

Declension of roast beef

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) roast beef	roast beeful	(niște) roast beefuri	roast beefurile
genitive/dative	(unui) roast beef	roast beefului	(unor) roast beefuri	roast beefurilor
vocative	roast beefule		roast beefurilor