steak
n. C / Un. a thick slice of high-quality meat or fish that you cook by grilling or frying. It is usually beef, but you can also have tuna or salmon steaks.
n. a thick, high-quality cut of meat or fish, typically sliced across the muscle grain. While most commonly associated with beef, the term also applies to cross-sections of large fish or thick slices of vegetable alternatives.
I would like my steak cooked medium-rare.
The restaurant is famous for its grilled steak served with a side of thick-cut fries and garlic butter.
The chef carefully seared the steak over high heat to create a flavorful crust while maintaining a tender, juicy interior.
From Middle English steike, from Old Norse steik (“roast; meat roasted on a stick”). The verb is either from the noun or from steikja (“to roast”). The modern pronunciation shows an irregular change of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language; contrast this with the development of other words such as speak and wreak.
Uncountable when referring to the meat as a substance; countable when referring to individual portions or specific cuts.