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Soup Suːp Noun Bowl Cup Chicken/Vegetable/Tomato Spoon/Bowl/Plate Tin/Packet

Word3 soup
WordType (noun)
Phonetic /suːp/ /suːp/
Example
  • a bowl /cup of soup
  • chicken/vegetable/tomato soup
  • a soup spoon/bowl/plate
  • a tin/packet of soup
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soup

(noun)/suːp/ /suːp/
  1. a liquid food made by boiling meat, vegetables, etc. in water, often eaten as the first course of a meal
    • SEE ALSO alphabet soup
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/alphabet-soup
    • a bowl /cup of soup
    • chicken/vegetable/tomato soup
    • a soup spoon/bowl/plate
    • a tin/packet of soup
    • a can/package of soup
    • He ladled out three bowls of soup.
    • tinned/packet soups
    • canned/packaged soups

    Extra Examples

    • Don't slurp your soup!
    • Warhol's paintings of Campbell's soup cans
    • We had a cold cucumber soup as a starter.
    • hearty vegetable soup
    • the Chinese delicacy of shark fin soup
    • the emergence of life from the primordial soup on the earth
    • I was too sick to eat my soup.
  2. from beginning to end
    • She told me the whole story from soup to nuts.
  3. in trouble
    • We're all in the soup now.

    Word Origin

    • Middle English: from Old French soupe ‘sop, broth (poured on slices of bread)’, from late Latin suppa, of Germanic origin.
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