Weal vs Beefsteak - What's the difference?
weal | beefsteak |
(obsolete) Wealth, riches.
* Francis Bacon
* Milton
Specifically, the general happiness of a community, country etc. (often with qualifying word).
* Macaulay
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* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 372:
a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip; a welt.
A steak cut from beef cattle.
The beefsteak plant, also known as perilla and shiso.
A beefsteak tomato.
A beefsteak mushroom.
(archaic): A celebratory dinner, commonly held in New York between about 1870 and 1940 involving the consumption of enormous quantities of broiled steak and beer.
As nouns the difference between weal and beefsteak
is that weal is wealth, riches while beefsteak is a steak cut from beef cattle.As a verb weal
is to mark with stripes; to wale.weal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- as we love the weal of our souls and bodies
- to him linked in weal or woe
- Never was there a time when it more concerned the public weal that the character of the Parliament should stand high.
- Louis could aim to restyle himself the first among citizens, viewing virtuous attachment to the public weal as his most important kingly duty.
