roast pork
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- noun
- /roʊst pɔrk/
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- For dinner, we enjoyed a delicious roast pork served with apple sauce and roasted vegetables.
- roast pork sandwich
- roast pork loin
- roast pork tenderloin
Examples
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Pork is the staple meat of the Danish diet, and dinner parties usually use elaborate pork dishes like flæskesteg (roast pork) as the main dish.
Academic text (1999) -
Elaine, have you ever had a roast pork sandwich on garlic bread?
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This is Cuban roast pork and quite a choice.
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I'd like to eat crunchy roast pork.
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I'll just take the... roast pork and bean sprouts, please.
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I recommend the roast pork tonight; it's acorn-fed and damned good.
Fiction book (2000) -
Ike resisted asking the price and chose the roast pork, a meal that would save him from having to do much cooking that night.
Fiction book (2000) -
Mama's roast pork, mashed potatoes, and gravy.
Fiction book (1992) -
The main feature at the meal will be about 900 pounds of calf fries along with 700 pounds of roast pork and 600 pounds of roast beef.
Blog text (25) -
If there's a roast pork sandwich from South Philly, it's got to be sharp provolone and broccoli, Rob with a little bit of pepper flakes.
Synonyms
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The meat from a pig that people eat
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Meat from the pig's back often roasted or grilled
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A long, narrow piece of pork from the pig's back that is very soft
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A cut of pork cooked in an oven until tender
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'roast' specifies the cooking method and 'pork' names the meat, so 'pork prepared by roasting' follows directly from the constituents. This adjective+noun food-labeling pattern is common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the meaning.
Etymology
The dish roast pork gives a simple picture: pork is cooked slowly until the outside is brown and tasty, and the word roast shows the cooking method. So 'roast pork' means 'pork that has been roasted'.