ROAST BEEF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roast beef mean? 

• ROAST BEEF (noun)
  The noun ROAST BEEF has 1 sense:

1. cut of beef suitable for roasting

  Familiarity information: ROAST BEEF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROAST BEEF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut of beef suitable for roasting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

beef roast; roast beef

Hypernyms ("roast beef" is a kind of...):

joint; roast (a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion)

 Context examples 

The rest of the half-year is a jumble in my recollection of the daily strife and struggle of our lives; of the waning summer and the changing season; of the frosty mornings when we were rung out of bed, and the cold, cold smell of the dark nights when we were rung into bed again; of the evening schoolroom dimly lighted and indifferently warmed, and the morning schoolroom which was nothing but a great shivering-machine; of the alternation of boiled beef with roast beef, and boiled mutton with roast mutton; of clods of bread-and-butter, dog's-eared lesson-books, cracked slates, tear-blotted copy-books, canings, rulerings, hair-cuttings, rainy Sundays, suet-puddings, and a dirty atmosphere of ink, surrounding all.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)