roast beef

1. 1.

   cut of beef suitable for roasting

   Synonymsbeef roast

   Broaderroast

Questions about roast beef

What does roast beef mean?

roast beef means "cut of beef suitable for roasting".

What is another word for roast beef?

Close synonyms include beef roast. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is roast beef a common word?

roast beef is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.