soup

I. soup¹ S3 /suːp/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable and countable]
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: French; Origin: soupe 'piece of bread dipped in liquid, soup']
1. cooked liquid food, often containing small pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables:
homemade tomato soup
2. be in the soup informal to be in trouble
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COLLOCATIONS
■ ADJECTIVES/NOUN + soup
▪ chicken/tomato etc soup We both had chicken soup.
▪ hot They serve hot soup from mobile kitchens.
▪ thick Lunch consisted of a thick vegetable soup.
▪ creamy A rich creamy potato soup starts the meal.
▪ homemade Homemade soup can be had for $2.50 a bowl.
▪ canned (also tinned British English) She heated up some tinned soup.
■ phrases
▪ a bowl of soup Could I have a bowl of soup?
▪ a cup/mug of soup He got a cup of soup from the machine.
▪ a can of soup (also a tin of soup British English) I opened a can of mushroom soup.
■ soup + NOUN
▪ a soup bowl/plate Russell pushed his empty soup bowl away.
▪ a soup spoon (=a spoon with a rounder part that you eat from than an ordinary spoon)
▪ a soup tureen (=a large bowl with a lid, from which soup is served) She lifted the lid of the soup tureen.
■ verbs
▪ eat/drink soup We chatted as we ate our spinach soup.
▪ ladle soup out/into a bowl (=serve it using a large spoon) Ladle the soup into warm bowls and garnish with

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

soup

soup [soup soups souped souping] noun, verb [suːp] [suːp]

noun

uncountable, countable
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
• (BrE) tinned/packet soups
• (NAmE) canned/packaged soups
• a soup spoon/plate
Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French soupe ‘sop, broth (poured on slices of bread)’, from late Latin suppa, of Germanic origin.
Example Bank:
• 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
Idioms: from soup to nuts ▪ in the soup

Derived: soup something up

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

soup / suːp / noun [ C or U ]

A1 a usually hot, liquid food made from vegetables, meat, or fish:

chicken/oxtail/fish/tomato soup

Would you like a bowl of soup?

Collins Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

soup

[su͟ːp]
soups, souping, souped
1) N-MASS: usu supp N Soup is liquid food made by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables in water.
  ...home-made chicken soup.
2) PHRASE: PHR after v, v-link PHR If you say that someone is in the soup, you mean they are in trouble. [JOURNALISM, INFORMAL]
  She has a knack of landing herself right in the soup.
  Phrasal Verbs:
  - soup up

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

¹soup /ˈsuːp/ noun, pl soups : a food made by cooking vegetables, meat, or fish in a large amount of liquid

[count]

• a delicious chicken soup

[noncount]

• a bowl of soup
• a soup spoon
- see also pea soup
in the soup informal + old-fashioned : in a bad situation : in trouble
• That stunt landed her in the soup.
soup to nuts US informal
1 : covering every detail or part of something
• The book provides a soup to nuts look at the current political scene.
2 from soup to nuts : in every detail or part
• The entire procedure from soup to nuts is changing.