Meaning

7 senses
  1. A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.

    Near-synonym: joint

    Serve the roast with gravy and mashed potatoes.

    Braten

    жарко́еžarkóje

    a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion

  2. A meal consisting of roast foods.

    Come over this weekend for Sunday roast.

    Braten

    жарко́еžarkóje

  3. The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.

    Dark roast means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light roast.

  4. An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.

  5. A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.

  6. (Canada, US)A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.

    On Memorial Day we hosted a wiener roast in the backyard.

  7. (slang)A creative insult as a response to something someone said.

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
Русский
By meaning 1
piece of meat:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
piece of meat:

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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Forms

plural: roasts
Singularroast
Pluralroasts

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion:joint
  • negative criticism:knock

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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