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rib roast

rib roast

1 2.8
A large cut of meat with several ribs cooked whole
  • noun
  • /rɪb roʊst/
translation icon : costilla asada
  • The re-rod hit, pak!, metal on meat, the sound of a butcher's cleaver cutting through a rib roast.
  • rib roast pound
  • beef rib roast
  • prime rib roast

Examples

  • Scrumptious 6 1/2-pound standing rib roast.

    Bad Santa (2003)

  • For our family holiday dinner, I prepared a succulent rib roast with all the classic sides.

  • - We found him hiding in the upright freezer near the rib roast.

    Nun of That (2009)

  • I was busy yesterday doing a prime rib roast on the backyard rotisserie.

    Blog text (26)

  • You got 15 rib roasts... ...30 ten-pound bags of hamburger.

    The Shining (1980)

  • We butcher our own cattle and have prime rib roasts cut (Spink County, South Dakota).

    Academic text (2003)

  • Like maybe there's like a, a rib roast, maybe there's a karaoke machine, maybe there's a pony, you know?

  • She rattles off everything that was on it: one rib roast, one salami, one rolled sausage, one mixed sausage, one pound of minced meat.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The chef recommended cooking the rib roast slowly to enhance its tenderness and flavor.

  • To celebrate her birthday, we decided to serve a prime rib roast as the centerpiece of the meal.

Synonyms

roast
vsrib roast
197 1.0

A large piece of meat cooked for slicing and serving

is a cut with ribs and attached meat rather than any large cooked piece
roast beef
vsrib roast
26 1.0

Sliced beef cooked in an oven and served as a main dish

names the uncooked cut including ribs rather than the cooked sliced meat
beef roast
vsrib roast
1 1.3

A large piece of beef cooked in an oven and served as a main dish

focuses on ribs and attached meat rather than any general roasting cut
standing rib roast
vsrib roast
  • US
1 5.2

A large cut of beef with several ribs, roasted standing up

is the same cut but usually roasted whole rather than upright

How Meaty

rib roast
1 2.8
rib
121 1.4

Surface Forms

rib roast singular
rib roasts plural

Morphology

rib + roast

The meaning 'a cut of meat including ribs prepared as a roast' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'rib' (the cut containing ribs) with 'roast' (a large cut of meat cooked by roasting). This straightforward noun + noun culinary compound follows common compositional patterns (and similar expressions exist in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily understand it.

Etymology

Rib roast comes from cooking a large piece of meat that includes the 'ribs'. Cooks would roast the whole rib section with the bones attached, so the name joins rib and roast and now means a big roast made from the rib area.