soup
Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor and texture.
Example
“Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.”
Other meanings
A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
A kind of
- dish
Kinds of soup
- alphabet soup
- bisque
- broth
- chicken soup
- pea soup
- pepper pot
- vegetable soup
- turtle soup
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "suppa" (sopped bread).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “soup” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.