Word.ws English Dictionary

ropa vieja

ropa vieja noun: a Hispanic dish made from shredded beef cooked in a tomato sauce.

Noun

ropa vieja (uncountable)

  1. A Hispanic dish made from shredded beef cooked in a tomato sauce.

Origin of ropa vieja

From Spanish ropa vieja (literally “old clothes”).

Questions about ropa vieja

What does ropa vieja mean?
Ropa vieja means a Hispanic dish made from shredded beef cooked in a tomato sauce.
What part of speech is ropa vieja?
Ropa vieja is a noun.

Words near ropa vieja in the dictionary

  1. rooves over the heads
  2. rooyebok
  3. rooyeboks
  4. ROP
  5. ROPA
  6. ropa vieja
  7. ropable
  8. ropalic
  9. ropalomerid
  10. ropalomerids
  11. ropani

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ropa vieja (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ropa vieja.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ropa_vieja. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.