beef
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)beeves, beefs
- cattle that are reared for their meatSynonyms: beef cattleType of cattle, cowsKinds Hereford, longhorn, Aberdeen Angus, cattalo, Charolais, Durham, Galloway, Santa Gertrudis
- meat from an adult domestic bovineSynonyms: boeufType of meatKinds ground beef, pastrami, bully beefPart of cattle, cowsParts cut of beef, beef loin
- informal terms for objecting“I have a gripe about the service here”Synonyms: gripekickbitchsquawkType of objection
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Translations
Noun meat of cattle
- Spanish
- carne de res
- French
- bœuf
- German
- Rindfleisch
- Italian
- manzo
- Portuguese
- carne de vaca
- Turkish
- sığır eti
- Russian
- говя́дина govjádina
- Arabic
- لَحْم بَقَر laḥm baqar
- Chinese
- 牛肉 niúròu
- Japanese
- 牛肉 gyūniku
36 more languages
- Dutch
- rundvlees
- Polish
- wołowina
- Swedish
- nötkött
- Greek
- βοδινό vodinó
- Korean
- 소고기 sogogi
- Indonesian
- daging sapi
- Vietnamese
- thịt bò
- Hungarian
- marhahús
- Portuguese (PT)
- carne de vaca
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 牛肉 niúròu
- Albanian
- mish lope
- Breton
- bevin
- Catalan
- vedella
- Corsican
- boie
- Czech
- hovězí
- Danish
- oksekød
- Esperanto
- bovaĵo
- Estonian
- veiseliha
- Finnish
- naudanliha
- Georgian
- საქონლის ხორცი sakonlis xorci
- Hebrew
- בְּשַׂר בָּקָר bsar bakár
- Icelandic
- nautakjöt
- Kurdish
- goştê ga
- Latvian
- liellopa gaļa
- Lithuanian
- jautiena
- Malagasy
- henan'omby
- Norwegian
- oksekjøtt
- Romanian
- carne de vită
- Scottish Gaelic
- mairtfheòil
- Serbo-Croatian
- govedina
- Slovak
- hovädzie
- Slovenian
- govedina
- Swahili
- nyama ya ng'ombe
- Walloon
- boû
- Welsh
- cig eidion
- Yiddish
- רינדפֿלייש rindfleysh
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. boef, befe, beef, OF. boef, buef, F. bœef, fr. L. bos, bovis, ox; akin to Gr. βοῦς, Skr. gō cow, and E. cow. See 2d Cow.
1. An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, Bos taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food. [In this, which is the original sense, the word has a plural, beeves (bēvz).]
A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine.— John Milton
2. The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food. [In this sense, the word has no plural.] “Great meals of beef.” William Shakespeare
3. Applied colloquially to human flesh.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
Beef tea, essence of beef, or strong beef broth.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54