[English] The Oxford 3000 Most Important Words
Soup Suːp Noun Bre Bowl Chicken Tinned/Packet Canned/Packaged
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soup |
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BrE / suːp / NAmE / suːp / |
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- a bowl of soup
- chicken soup
- tinned/packet soups
- canned/packaged soups
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soup(noun)BrE / suːp / NAmE / suːp / - 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
- from beginning to end
- She told me the whole story from soup to nuts.
- 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.
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