Meaning

2 senses
  1. (not comparable)Having been cooked by roasting.

    gebraten

    жа́реныйžárenyj

    сма́женийsmáženyj

  2. (figuratively, not comparable)Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized.

More definitions
  • (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven

Examples

170 sentences
  1. I like roasted chestnuts.

    Мені подобаються печені каштани. — deniko

    deIch mag Röstkastanien. — Manfredo

  2. Tom is roasting coffee beans.

    Том обсмажує кавові зерна. — tikan0

  3. How about some more roast beef?

    ruКак насчёт добавки ростбифа? — Hellerick

  4. Tom roasts his own coffee beans.

    deTom röstet sich seine eigenen Kaffeebohnen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. Horseradish tastes good on roast beef sandwiches.

Translations

7 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

From Middle English rosten, a borrowing from Old French rostir (“to roast, to torture with

From Middle English rosten, a borrowing from Old French rostir (“to roast, to torture with fire”), from Frankish *rōstijan (“to roast, broil”), from Proto-Germanic *raustijaną (“to roast”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrews- (“to crackle; roast”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rosterje (“to roast”), Dutch roosten, roosteren (“to roast”), German rösten (“to roast”).

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