Roast

What “Roast” means

Verb

1. To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
2. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
3. To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
4. To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
5. To admonish someone vigorously.

Noun

1. A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
2. A meal consisting of roast foods.
3. The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
4. An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
5. A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.

Adj

1. Having been cooked by roasting.
2. Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English rosten, a borrowing from Old French rostir (“to roast, to torture with fire”), from Frankish *rōstijan (“to roast, broil”), from Proto-Germanic *raustijaną (“to roast”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrews- (“to crackle; roast”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rosterje (“to roast”), Dutch roosten, roosteren (“to roast”), German rösten (“to roast”). Displaced native Middle English breden, bræden (“to roast”), from Old English brǣdan, related to German braten (“to roast, grill”). The noun is from Middle English roste, from Old French rost, roste, from the verb.

Business name ideas with “Roast”

Industries where “Roast” fits

We suggest this word for 4 business types and industries, including:

• Coffee Roaster
• Coffee Shop
• Coffee and Tea Manufacturing
• Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars