SOUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soup mean? 

• SOUP (noun)
  The noun SOUP has 3 senses:

1. liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food

2. any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup

3. an unfortunate situation

  Familiarity information: SOUP used as a noun is uncommon.

• SOUP (verb)
  The verb SOUP has 1 sense:

1. dope (a racehorse)

  Familiarity information: SOUP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

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

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

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

Scotch broth (a thick soup made from beef or mutton with vegetables and pearl barley)

lentil soup (made of stock and lentils with onions carrots and celery)

green pea soup; potage St. Germain (made of fresh green peas and stock with shredded lettuce onion and celery)

split-pea soup (made of stock and split peas with onions carrots and celery)

won ton; wonton; wonton soup (a soup with won ton dumplings)

chowder (a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes)

eggdrop soup (made by stirring beaten eggs into a simmering broth)

green turtle soup; turtle soup (soup usually made of the flesh of green turtles)

potage; pottage (thick (often creamy) soup)

minestrone; petite marmite; vegetable soup (soup made with a variety of vegetables)

pepper pot; Philadelphia pepper pot (a soup made with vegetables and tripe and seasoned with peppercorns; often contains dumplings)

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

oxtail soup (a soup made from the skinned tail of an ox)

soup du jour (the soup that a restaurant is featuring on a given day)

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

marmite (soup cooked in a large pot)

julienne (a clear soup garnished with julienne vegetables)

gumbo (a soup or stew thickened with okra pods)

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

cock-a-leekie; cocky-leeky (soup made from chicken boiled with leeks)

chicken soup (soup made from chicken broth)

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

broth (a thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock)

borsch; borscht; borsh; borshch; borsht; bortsch (a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation)

bisque (a thick cream soup made from shellfish)

consomme (clear soup usually of beef or veal or chicken)

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

composition (a mixture of ingredients)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An unfortunate situation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

we're in the soup now

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

position; situation (a condition or position in which you find yourself)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

• SOUP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they soup    ... he / she / it soups   
Past simple: souped   
Past participle: souped   
-ing form: souping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dope (a racehorse)

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "soup" is one way to...):

dope; dope up (give a narcotic to)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

“But how did you get the ring that was in the soup?” asked the king.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“I’ve told you what’s what, and let it stop at that. The man’s mine, and I’ll make soup of him and eat it if I want to.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Sure, my dear Sir Thomas, a basin of soup would be a much better thing for you than tea. Do have a basin of soup.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The universe began in a hot soup of particles that rapidly spread apart in a period called inflation.

(Most Distant Black Hole, NASA)

By slow degrees he recovered and ate a little soup, which restored him wonderfully.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Even if it isn't more than five dollars, Martin thought to himself, it will buy enough beans and pea-soup to enable me to write half a dozen like it, and possibly as good.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We get hot soup, or coffee, or tea; and off we go.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In a paper published in 2015, researchers proposed that cyanide, although a deadly poison, was in fact a key ingredient in the primordial soup from which all life on Earth originated.

(Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth, University of Cambridge)

It might be even more worrisome, in that kids in urban environments are operating in more of a toxic chemical soup than kids in a more rural environment.

(Infants, Toddlers at More Risk from Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke than Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

If you are really lucky, your mother or a friend might prepare homemade chicken soup for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)