soup
a usually hot, liquid food made from vegetables, meat, or fish
سوپ
Would you like a bowl of soup?
Oxford Essential Dictionary
soup
noun (no plural)
pronunciation
The word soup sounds like loop.
liquid food that you make by cooking things like vegetables or meat in water:
tomato soup
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 COBUILD 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.
