beef
The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
Noun 4 meanings
The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
“I love eating beef.”
Bovine animals.
A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
“Do you want to raise beeves?”
Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
Verb 1 meaning
To cry.
“David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off.”
Adjective 3 meanings
Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
“We bought three beef calves this morning.”
Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
Etymology
From Middle English beef, bef, beof, borrowed from Anglo-Norman beof, Old French buef, boef (“ox”) (modern French bœuf); from Latin bovem (“ox”), from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Doublet of cow.
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BEEF at a glance
BEEF has 4 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (B 3 + E 1 + E 1 + F 4) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,269 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with beef
All rhymes- REEF7
- KEEF11
- NECKBEEF19
- SHEREEF13
- SKEEF12
One letter away
- BEEN6
- BEER6
- BEES6
- REEF7
- BEEP8
- BEET6
- KEEF11
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