soup

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Other forms: soups; souped; souping

Soup is a liquid or thick, creamy food that's usually hot and savory. If you have a sore throat, your grandma might make you a nice bowl of chicken noodle soup.

Most soup is made by cooking vegetables, beans, meat, or fish (or a combination of these) in water for a long time. Sometimes soup is thickened with cream or flour, or by pureeing some of the ingredients. Certain soups, like gazpacho and vichyssoise, are served cold, and others are sweet and made with fruit. You may hear people describe a dense, thick fog as "pea soup" or use the phrase "soup to nuts" to mean "everything."

Definitions of soup

1. noun

   liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food
   types:

   soup du jour

   the soup that a restaurant is featuring on a given day

   alphabet soup

   soup that contains small noodles in the shape of letters of the alphabet

   consomme

   clear soup usually of beef or veal or chicken

   bisque

   a thick cream soup made from shellfish

   borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch

   an Eastern European soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, originating in Ukraine

   broth

   a thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock

   broth, stock

   liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces

   chicken soup

   soup made from chicken broth

   cock-a-leekie, cocky-leeky

   soup made from chicken boiled with leeks

   gazpacho

   a soup made with chopped tomatoes and onions and cucumbers and peppers and herbs; served cold

   gumbo

   a soup or stew thickened with okra pods

   julienne

   a clear soup garnished with thinly cut vegetables

   marmite

   soup cooked in a large pot

   mock turtle soup

   soup made from a calf's head or other meat in imitation of green turtle soup

   mulligatawny

   a soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base

   oxtail soup

   a soup made from the skinned tail of an ox

   pea soup

   a thick soup made of dried peas (usually made into a puree)

   Philadelphia pepper pot, pepper pot

   a soup made with vegetables and tripe and seasoned with peppercorns; often contains dumplings

   minestrone, petite marmite, vegetable soup

   soup made with a variety of vegetables

   potage, pottage

   thick (often creamy) soup

   green turtle soup, turtle soup

   soup usually made of the flesh of green turtles

   eggdrop soup

   made by stirring beaten eggs into a simmering broth

   chowder

   a thick soup or stew usually containing seafood in a base of cream or tomatoes

   won ton, wonton, wonton soup

   a soup of savory dumplings filled with meat or vegetables and served in a clear broth, originating in China

   split-pea soup

   made of stock and split peas with onions carrots and celery

   green pea soup, potage St. Germain

   made of fresh green peas and stock with shredded lettuce onion and celery

   lentil soup

   made of stock and lentils with onions carrots and celery

   Scotch broth

   a thick soup made from beef or mutton with vegetables and pearl barley

   vichyssoise

   a creamy potato soup flavored with leeks and onions; usually served cold

   madrilene

   a tomato-flavored consomme; often served chilled

   liquor, pot likker, pot liquor

   the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked

   barley water

   used to feed infants

   bouillon

   a clear seasoned broth

   beef broth, beef stock

   a stock made with beef

   chicken broth, chicken stock

   a stock made with chicken

   stock cube

   a cube of dehydrated stock

   corn chowder

   chowder containing corn

   clam chowder

   chowder containing clams

   fish chowder

   chowder containing fish

   type of:

   dish

   a particular item of prepared food
2. noun

   any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup
   type of:

   composition

   a mixture of ingredients
3. noun

   an unfortunate situation
   “we're in the soup now”

   type of:

   position, situation

   a condition or position in which you find yourself
4. verb

   dope (a racehorse)
   type of:

   dope, dope up

   give a narcotic to