Soup

Noun

 * 1) Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture.
 * Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.
 * 1)  A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
 * 2)  The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
 * 3)  Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
 * 4)  thick fog or cloud (also pea soup:).
 * 5) 🇺🇸 nitroglycerin or gelignite, esp. when used for safe-cracking.
 * 6)  dope (for making horses run faster or change their personality).
 * 7)  processing chemicals into which film is dipped, e.g., developer.
 * 8)  Liquid or gelatinous substrate, esp. the mixture of organic compounds that is believe to have played a role in the origin of life on Earth. (Cf. primordial soup:)
 * 9)  Unfortunate situation, trouble, problems (a fix, a mess), chaos.
 * 10)  The foam portion of a wave.
 * 1)  The foam portion of a wave.

Verb

 * 1) To provide soup or a meal.
 * 2) To dine on soup, to eat soup.
 * 3) To soak up liquid or sauce from a dish with a piece of bread and eat it.
 * 4) To be in trouble or in difficulty (often passive--cf. in the soup:).
 * 5)  To improve something by making it more powerful, elaborate or impressive (Cf. soup up:)
 * 1)  To improve something by making it more powerful, elaborate or impressive (Cf. soup up:)

Derived terms

 * alphabet soup
 * beef soup
 * beer soup
 * bird's nest soup
 * bread soup
 * canned soup
 * chicken soup
 * condensed soup
 * cream soup
 * dessert soup
 * duck soup


 * egg droup soup
 * fish soup
 * French onion soup
 * fruit soup
 * in the soup
 * leek soup
 * lentil soup
 * miso soup
 * mock turtle soup
 * noodle soup
 * oxtail soup


 * pea soup
 * primordial soup
 * she-crab soup
 * soup bowl
 * soup du jour
 * souped-up
 * souper
 * souping
 * soup fire
 * soup kitchen
 * soup legs
 * soup of the day


 * soup plate
 * soup's on
 * soup sandwich
 * soup to nuts
 * soup up
 * soupy
 * stone soup
 * tomato soup
 * vegetable soup
 * wine soup
 * winter melon soup
 * word soup

Hyponyms

 * bisque
 * bouillon
 * broth
 * chowder


 * consommé
 * cream soup
 * gazpacho
 * gruel


 * porridge
 * purée
 * summer soup
 * velouté

Related terms

 * porridge
 * stew

Adjectives for Soup
thick; substantial; hearty; savory; scalding; canned.

Verbs for Soup
administer—; bolt—; brew—; concoct—; dispatch—; gulp—; guzzle—; imbibe—; ladle—; prepare—; relish—; savor—; season—; sip—; spice—; strain—; swill—; — gelatinizes; —invigorates; —nourishes; — replenishes; —scalds; —tempts; —thickens; —tickles the palate.

Thesaurus
CAT, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace, albumen, batter, bisque, bonnyclabber, borscht, bouillabaisse, bouillon, box, broth, bump, burgoo, butter, ceiling, chicken soup, chowder, clabber, clam chowder, clear soup, consomme, corner, cornstarch, cream, crosswind, curd, developer, dilemma, dough, egg drop soup, egg white, empty space, favorable wind, fish soup, fix, fixer, fixing bath, fog, front, gaum, gazpacho, gel, gelatin, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gravy soup, gruel, gumbo, gunk, head wind, high-pressure area, hole, hypo, ionosphere, jam, jell, jelly, jetstream, julienne, lath, loblolly, low-pressure area, matzo ball soup, mere shadow, minestrone, misoshiru soup, mock turtle soup, molasses, mucilage, mucus, mulligatawny, overcast, oxtail soup, pap, paper, paste, pickle, plight, pocket, porridge, pot-au-feu, potage, potage au tomate, potato soup, pottage, processing solution, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, rail, rake, rob, roughness, scrape, semifluid, semiliquid, shadow, shaving, short-stop, short-stop bath, size, skeleton, slat, slip, sodium hyposulfite, sodium thiosulfate, space, splinter, starch, sticky mess, stock, stop bath, stratosphere, streak, substratosphere, syrup, tail wind, thick soup, thin soup, tomato soup, treacle, tropopause, troposphere, trough, turbulence, turtle soup, vegetable soup, vein, vichyssoise, visibility, visibility zero, wafer, won ton soup

Etymology
(1645) soupe:, from  souppe, sope, from  suppa: 'sopped bread', from  (compare  soop 'broth',  souf 'id.',  saup:), deverbative of *undefined:; see sop.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Alabama: okchi
 * Arabic: شوربة, حساء,  سوب
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azeri: şorba
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chuvash:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French: potage, soupe , velouté (for posher soups)
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew: מרק
 * Hindi: सूप
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 汁
 * Kalmyk:
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Kazakh: сорпа, көже
 * Khakas:
 * Korean:, ,


 * Kumyk:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lower Sorbian: pólewanka, zupa
 * Luxembourgish: Zopp
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Mongolian: шөл
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, похлёбка
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Shor: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sabaw
 * Tajik: шӯрбо
 * Telugu: చారు(caaru),పులుసు(pulusu)
 * Thai: ซุป
 * Tibetan: ཐུག་པ་ (thug pa)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: poliwka, zopa
 * Uzbek: shoʻrva
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Yakut:


 * Dutch: soep


 * French: ,

Anagrams

 * opus
 * pous