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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
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.
A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
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.
The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
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Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
Thick fog or cloud (also pea soup).
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Usage: countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable
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noun
Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
Nitroglycerine or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.
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Usage: US, countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable
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noun
Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
Dope or cocaine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Qualifier: cant
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noun
Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Topics: arts, hobbies, lifestyle, photography
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noun
Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
A liquid or gelatinous substrate, especially the mixture of organic compounds that is believed to have played a role in the origin of life on Earth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
An unfortunate situation; trouble, problems (a fix, a mess); chaos.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, figuratively, informal, often, uncountable, with-definite-article
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noun
Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
The foamy portion of a wave.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports, surfing
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noun
Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
Any random starting pattern, typically studied to see what sorts of resultant more stable patterns emerge when evolved over subsequent generations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Topics: cellular-automata, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Alternative form of sup (“a sip; a small amount of food or drink”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
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verb
To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
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verb
To proselytize by feeding the impoverished as long as they listen to one's preaching.
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Usage: obsolete
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verb
Alternative form of sup (“to sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
To sweep.
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Usage: obsolete
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verb
Rare form of sup (“to take supper”).
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Usage: form-of, rare
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noun
liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dish
Narrower terms: soup du jour, alphabet soup, consomme, bisque, borsch, borsh, borscht, borsht, borshch, bortsch, broth, stock, chicken soup, cock-a-leekie, cocky-leeky, gazpacho, gumbo, julienne, marmite, mock turtle soup, mulligatawny, oxtail soup, pea soup, pepper pot, Philadelphia pepper pot, petite marmite, minestrone, vegetable soup, potage, pottage, turtle soup, green turtle soup, eggdrop soup, chowder, won ton, wonton, wonton soup, split-pea soup, green pea soup, potage St. Germain, lentil soup, Scotch broth, vichyssoise
noun
an unfortunate situation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: situation, position
noun
any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup
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Broader terms: composition
verb
dope (a racehorse)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dope, dope up
History
The noun is from Middle English soupe, sowpe, from Old French soupe, souppe, sope, from Late Latin suppa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Middle Dutch sope (“broth”)). Doublet of sop and zuppa. See also sup and supper. The verb is from the noun.
From Middle English soupe, from Old English sūpe (“sup; draught”).
From Middle English soupen, from Old English sūpan (“to sup, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną. More at sup.
From Middle English swopen, from Old English swāpan (“to sweep”), from Proto-Germanic *swaipaną (“to sweep”). More at sweep.
From Middle English soupen, suppen, from Anglo-Norman super, from supe, soupe (“soup”) + -er (verb-forming suffix).
Across languages
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