steak
Beefsteak: a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
Other meanings
A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc.
A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish.
A kind of
- cut
Kinds of steak
- fish steak
Related words
- burger steak
- flank steak
- cheesesteak
- chipsteak
- grillsteak
- nonsteak
- ribsteak
- steakburger
- steakette
- steakfish
- steakhouse
- steakless
Example sentences
Word history
From Old Norse "steik" (roast; meat roasted on a stick).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “steak” 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.