Apedia

Soup Suːp Noun Bre Bowl Chicken Tinned/Packet Canned/Packaged

Word soup
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / suːp / NAmE / suːp /
Example
  • a bowl of soup
  • chicken soup
  • tinned/packet soups
  • canned/packaged soups
Sound Native audio playback is not supported.
Image
Search images by the word
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1280&bih=661&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=soup
Content

soup

(noun)BrE / suːp / NAmE / suːp /
  1. a liquid food made by boiling meat, vegetables, etc. in water, often eaten as the first course of a meal
    • a bowl of soup
    • chicken soup
    • tinned/packet soups
    • canned/packaged soups
    • a soup spoon/plate
  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.

    Extra Examples

    • Don’t slurp your soup!
    • He ladled out three bowls of soup.
    • Warhol’s paintings of Campbell’s soup cans
    • We had a cold cucumber soup as a starter.
    • an alphabet soup of other government agencies= used to say that their names consist of complicated abbreviations
    • hearty vegetable soup
    • the Chinese delicacy of shark fin soup
    • the emergence of life from the primordial soup on the Earth

    Word Origin

    • Middle English: from Old French soupe ‘sop, broth (poured on slices of bread)’, from late Latin suppa, of Germanic origin.
Copyright This card's content is collected from the following dictionaries: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Tags: s

Learn with these flashcards. Click next, previous, or up to navigate to more flashcards for this subject.

Next card: Source renewable energy information income government taxed noun

Previous card: Sound sounded i saʊnd doesn’t explanation reasonable leo

Up to card list: [English] The Oxford 3000 Most Important Words