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Definition of 'beef'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) beef
the flesh of a cow, steer, or bull raised and killed for its meat.

2.  beef
an adult cow, steer, or bull raised for its meat.

3.  beef
Informal.

4.  beef
brawn; muscular strength.

5.  beef
human flesh.

6.  beef
Slang.

7.  beef
a complaint.

8. (v.i.) beef
Slang. to complain; grumble.

9.  beef
beef up,

10.  beef
to add strength, numbers, force, etc., to.

Etymology: (1250–1300; ME < AF beof, OF boef < L bovem, acc. of bōs ox, cow; akin to cow¹)

Definition of 'beef'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) beef, beef cattle
cattle that are reared for their meat

2. (noun) beef, boeuf
meat from an adult domestic bovine

3. (verb) gripe, kick, beef, bitch, squawk
informal terms for objecting
"I have a gripe about the service here"

4. (verb) gripe, bitch, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler
complain
"What was he hollering about?"

Definition of 'beef'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) beef
meat from a cow
ground/roast beef

Definition of 'beef'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) beef
of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef

2. (noun) beef
an animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food

3. (noun) beef
the flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food

4. (noun) beef
applied colloquially to human flesh

Translation of 'beef'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the flesh of a bull, cow or ox, used as food.
Afrikaans: beesvleis, bief	Arabic: لَحْم بَقَر	Bulgarian: говеждо месо
Brazilian: carne de vaca	Czech: hovězí (maso)	German: das Rindfleisch
Danish: oksekød	Greek: βοδινό	Spanish: carne de vaca
Estonian: veiseliha, härjaliha	Farsi: گوشت گاو	Finnish: naudanliha
French: boeuf	Hebrew: בְּשַר בָּקַר	Hindi: गोमांस
Croatian: govedina	Hungarian: marhahús	Indonesian: daging sapi
Icelandic: nautakjöt	Italian: manzo, carne bovina	Japanese: 牛肉
Korean: 쇠고기	Lithuanian: jautiena	Latvian: liellopu gaļa
Malay: daging lembu	Dutch: rundvlees	Norwegian: oksekjøtt
Polish: wołowina	Persian: گوشت گاو	Portuguese: carne de vaca
Romanian: (carne de) vită	Russian: говядина	Slovak: hovädzina
Slovenian: govedina	Serbian: govedina	Swedish: nötkött, oxkött
Thai: เนื้อวัว	Turkish: sığır eti	Taiwanese: 牛肉
Ukrainian: яловичина	Urdu: گائے یا بیل کا گوشت	Vietnamese: thịt bò
Chinese: 牛肉
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