Definitions for roast

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roast roast

Spelling: [rohst]

IPA: /roʊst/

Roast is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in roast (aorst).

Definitions for roast

noun

1. roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
2. a piece of meat for roasting.
3. something that is roasted.
4. the act or process of roasting.
5. Informal. severe criticism.
6. a facetious ceremonial tribute, usually concluding a banquet, in which the guest of honor is both praised and good-naturedly insulted in a succession of speeches by friends and acquaintances.
7. an outdoor get-together, as a picnic or barbecue, at which food is roasted and eaten:

adjective

1. roasted:

verb (used with object)

1. to bake (meat or other food) uncovered, especially in an oven.
2. to cook (meat or other food) by direct exposure to dry heat, as on a spit.
3. to brown, dry, or parch by exposure to heat, as coffee beans.
4. to cook or heat by embedding in hot coals, embers, etc.:
5. to heat excessively:
6. Metallurgy. to heat (ore or the like) in air in order to oxidize it.
7. to warm at a hot fire:
8. Informal. to ridicule or criticize severely or mercilessly.
9. to honor with or subject to a roast:

verb (used without object)

1. to roast meat or other food.
2. to undergo the process of becoming roasted.

Origin of roast

1250-1300; Middle English rosten (v.) Old French rostir Germanic; compare Dutch roosten, German rösten

Examples for roast

They drove out to a restaurant on Eight Mile Road, and he drank two glasses of water, waiting for his roast beef sandwich and tea.

The nanas and poppies and grannies and grampses who flocked there to roast in the sun.

With time I learned to disassemble the entire hotpot and mount the heating coil on a roast beef can with a whole punched in it.

A breast of veal will require about three hours and a half to roast.

Put it on a spit, and roast it till it is tender throughout.

Remove the roast from the pan and let rest for a minimum of 15 minutes.

In summer, meat will roast in a shorter time than in winter.

A roast of beef meant a visit, in Dr. Ed's modest-paying clientele.

I plan to get shrimp as well as the catfish and also the roast beef.

The lotus is a leguminous plant—so excellent for the salad—not for the roast.