Word: soup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 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. Pronunciation: /suːp/, /sup/ 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 the food value, flavor, and texture. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup. Example: Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […] 2. 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. Labels: countable 3. 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. Labels: uncountable 4. Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The cleanup job would turn out to be possibly second only to body-recovery duty in terms of being a job that nobody wanted to get assigned to. Imagine, for a moment, a thick soup of oil, paper, ink, clothing, raw meat and other fresh provisions, and worse, that had all been left to collect together in semi-warm water, all enclosed in a large metal container that had then been subjected to heating by first fire and then repeated warm Hawaiian days, and then left to ferment for over a month, and then with most of the water drained away and all the remaining solid and semi-liquid mass collecting together in pools and heaps across multiple decks, still in a relatively-enclosed environment. 5. Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency. Labels: countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable 6. Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency. Labels: US, countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable 7. Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: […]who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup[…] 8. Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 9. Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: primordial soup 10. Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency. Labels: UK, countable, figuratively, informal, often, uncountable, with-definite-article Example: B. Wickham had also the disposition and general outlook on life of a ticking bomb. In her society you always had the uneasy feeling that something was likely to go off at any moment with a pop. You never knew what she was going to do next or into what murky depths of soup she would carelessly plunge you. [...] “It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isn't so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly in the soup.” 11. Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 12. Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable