🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

मध्यम-अच्छी तरह पका हुआ

Pronunciation / Transliteration: madhyam-achchhi tarah paka hua

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Medium-well/ˌmiː.di.əmˈwel/
adjectivenounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"मुझे अपनी स्टेक मध्यम-अच्छी तरह पकी हुई चाहिए।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Cooked such that the meat is mostly firm and brownish throughout, with only a very faint trace of pink in the center.

    "He prefers his steak medium-well so that it is not too bloody."
As noun
  1. 1

    A steak or other cut of meat cooked to this specific degree of doneness.

    "The waiter wrote down two mediums and one medium-well for the order."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term is a compound adjective combining 'medium' (derived from Latin 'medius', meaning middle) and 'well' (from Old English 'wel', denoting thoroughly or to a high degree). It emerged in culinary contexts during the 20th century in North American English to designate a specific degree of meat doneness where the center is slightly pink.

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