🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

バーベキュー

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bābekyū

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Barbecue/ˈbɑːr.bɪ.kjuː/
nounverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #2500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"私たちは庭でバーベキューをしました。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A method of cooking meat slowly over a fire or hot coals, often outdoors.

    "We decided to have a barbecue in the backyard this weekend."
  2. 2

    A social gathering where food is cooked on a barbecue.

    "The neighborhood barbecue was a great opportunity to meet new friends."

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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Arawak word barabicu, meaning 'framework of sticks set upon posts', which was adopted into Spanish as barbacoa during the colonization of the Caribbean. Over centuries, the term evolved in English to describe both the cooking apparatus and the social culinary event, with contemporary Korean barbecue (Gugui) representing a globally renowned specific cultural variant.

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