beef
The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
Other meanings
The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
Bovine animals.
A kind of
- cattle
Kinds of beef
- longhorn
Related words
- Albany beef
- beef measles
- baby beef
- baron of beef
- beefalo
- beefaroni
- beef bayonet
- beef bourguignon
- beef-brained
- beefburger
- beefcake
- beef chit
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "bōs" (bovem).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “beef” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.