[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/roast/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [R](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/r/) / roast # roast verb (roast, roasts, roasted, roasting); noun (a roast, roasts); adjective (roast) «roast» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. To cook food, like meat or vegetables, in an oven or over a fire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#m1) 2. As an adjective, cooked in this way: "roast chicken", "roast potatoes". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#m2) 3. As a noun, a piece of roasted meat or a big meal with it: "Sunday roast". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#m3) 4. Informally, to be very hot: "I'm roasting!" [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#m4) ### In the lessons In everyday life in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, many families have a Sunday roast. In cooking lessons pupils learn that roasting uses dry heat. Around a campfire people roast marshmallows. Phrases: Sunday roast, roast dinner, roast potatoes, roast marshmallows. ### Examples - We roasted marshmallows over the campfire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#x1) - Dad roasts a chicken every Sunday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#x2) - Roast potatoes are crispy on the outside. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#x3) - We had a roast dinner at Grandma's. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#x4) - Roast the carrots for forty minutes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#x5) - I'm roasting in this coat! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#x6) - The smell of roast beef filled the kitchen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#x7) - The apples were beginning to roast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/#x8) ### Note Regular verb: roast, roasted. As an adjective people say "roast chicken" more than "roasted chicken". In maths cooking problems, time is often given per kilogram: if 1 kilogram takes 45 minutes, 2 kilograms take 90 minutes. Safety: use oven gloves; roasting tins are very hot. ## In Jewish tradition The Passover lamb had to be roasted whole over fire, not boiled or eaten raw. **Interpretation.** Tradition says roasting recalls the haste of leaving Egypt, and the Seder still remembers the roasted lamb with a roasted bone on the plate. ### Examples - And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it. (Torah EXO.12.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roast/#x1) - Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof. (Torah EXO.12.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roast/#x2) - And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. (Torah DEU.16.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roast/#x3) - And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance; and the holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people. (Writings 2CH.35.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roast/#x4) - He burneth the half thereof in the fire; with the half thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself, and saith: 'Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire'; (Prophets ISA.44.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roast/#x5) - Yea, before the fat was made to smoke, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed: 'Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.' (Prophets 1SA.2.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roast/#x6) ### Note Regular verb: roast, roasted. As an adjective people say "roast chicken" more than "roasted chicken". In maths cooking problems, time is often given per kilogram: if 1 kilogram takes 45 minutes, 2 kilograms take 90 minutes. Safety: use oven gloves; roasting tins are very hot. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «roast» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roast/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«roast» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/roast.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «roast» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roast/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«roast» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/roast.html) on Mova free.