BROTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broth mean? 

• BROTH (noun)
  The noun BROTH has 2 senses:

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

2. a thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock

  Familiarity information: BROTH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

broth; stock

Context example:

she made gravy with a base of beef stock

Hypernyms ("broth" is a kind of...):

soup (liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "broth"):

liquor; pot likker; pot liquor (the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked)

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("broth" is a kind of...):

soup (liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "broth"):

barley water (broth used to feed infants)

bouillon (a clear seasoned broth)

 Context examples 

This species is nonmotile, indole and esculin positive, forms pleomorphic rods in PYG broth, requires vitamin B12 to produce propionate from succinate, and hemin stimulates growth and produces succinate and acetate.

(Bacteroides eggerthii, NCI Thesaurus)

After Hans had gone away, she cooked herself some good broth and took it into the field with her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Cast on another culpon, John, and stir the broth with thy sword-sheath,” growled Johnston, looking anxiously for the twentieth time at the reeking pot.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A helot of Agesilaus made us a dish of Spartan broth, but I was not able to get down a second spoonful.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“Oh, you're a broth of a boy, ain't you?” returned Miss Mowcher, shaking her head violently.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This species is nonmotile, metabolizes arginine with the subsequent release of ammonia into the broth medium, resistant to penicillins and cephalosporins, while tetracycline (adults only) and erythromycin are effective chemotherapeutic agents.

(Mycoplasma hominis, NCI Thesaurus)

Kidney glomeruli — constituent microscopic parts of the organ- were generated from human embryonic stem cells grown in plastic laboratory culture dishes containing a nutrient broth known as culture medium, containing molecules to promote kidney development.

(Scientists Create Functioning Kidney Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They did as they were desired; and by the time she judged it reasonable to have done with her boot, she had the comfort of farther delay in her power, being overtaken by a child from the cottage, setting out, according to orders, with her pitcher, to fetch broth from Hartfield.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I pray that your dream may come true, for the prince hath not set us out here to drink broth or to gather whortle-berries.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was once a very old man, whose eyes had become dim, his ears dull of hearing, his knees trembled, and when he sat at table he could hardly hold the spoon, and spilt the broth upon the table-cloth or let it run out of his mouth.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)