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Definition: Soup |
SoupNoun1. Liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food. 2. (informal) any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup. 3. (informal) an unfortunate situation; "we're in the soup now". Verb1. Dope a racehorse. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "soup" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Soup \Soup\, noun. [French soupe, Old French sope, supe, soupe, perhaps originally, a piece of bread; probably of Teutonic origin; compare to Dutch sop sop, German suppe soup. See Sopsomething dipped in a liquid, and compare to Supper.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of soup, is a forerunner of good tidings and comfort. To see others taking soup, foretells that you will have many good chances to marry. For a young woman to make soup, signifies that she will not be compelled to do menial work in her household, as she will marry a wealthy man. To drink oyster soup made of sweet milk, there will be quarrels with some bad luck, but reconciliations will follow. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Soup is the general term for various kinds of salty liquid food, which often also contains solid components, such as vegetables and/or meat.
It it often one of the first courses of a dinner; if it is very rich in components and calories it may serve as a whole meal.
The origin of soup is connected to the development of pottery vessels capable of holding and cooking liquids over a fire without breaking, a technology available in Mediterranean cultures since Neolithic times (approximately 5000 B.C.)
Learning to boil food was advantageous because it meant that certain grains, tougher vegetables and animal bones could be cooked together to add their taste and nutrients to a dish. Once you had a mixture of foods with water, it seems an inevitable development that people would drink the broth as well as eating the cooked items in it.
Soup is usually made from stock - water in which meat bones (and/ or vegetables) have been boiled.
Stock can be strained and reduced (boiled to reduce the water content) to yield a clear soup called consommé .
Cold soups, such as gazpacho, can be salty when made from vegetables, or sweet, when made from fruits.
recipe for "nutritious soup"
From the 1881 Household Cyclopedia
A pound of Scotch barley, with sufficient time allowed in the cooking, will make a gallon of water into a tolerable pudding consistency. A pint basin filled with it will hold a spoon upright, when at its proper degree of warmth for eating. Thoroughly steeped, it will produce a rich pulp, the form of the grains being nearly lost. Five hours' exposure, in a moderately heated oven, will be sufficient; and it may be improved by an hour or two more.
Amongst other means for such preparation, when a baker's oven has been emptied of its bread a pan of 1 gallon size may be put in to steep its contents during the preceding night, and then renew the usual baking in the morning. What has been lost by evaporation, may be restored by the addition of warm water. All the seasoning requisite to make it as savory as plain family dishes generally are, will be about 3 large onions, 1 ounce of salt, and 1/4 of an ounce of pepper. This seasoning should be put in before sending it to the oven.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Soup."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup; potion, dram, draught, drench, swill; nip, sip, sup, gulp. |
Beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entremet; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment. | |
Semiliquidity | Emulsion, soup; squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze; moisture; marsh . |
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Screenplays | That's right, the same plants and flowers that saw you crawl from the primordial soup will reclaim the planet (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) What's the soup du jour (Dumb and Dumber; writing credit: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, and Bennett Yellin.) There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) Look, it's all completely chicken soup. (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Well done Bridge, 4 hours of careful cooking and a feast of blue soup, omelette and marmalade (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) | |
Lyrics | Yeah I think I'll make me some homemade soup (It's A Great Day To Be Alive; performing artist: Travis Tritt) | |
Clever | The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup. (references; author: Bob Hope) A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Lily ladles little Letty's lentil soup. (references; author: unknown) Sly Sam slurps Sally's soup. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Alphabet Soup (1971) There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) People Soup (1969) Duck Soup to Nuts (1944) Soup to Mutts (1939) | |
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 | Three different shots of soup. (Campbells' Vegetable, Cream of Broccoli or Chicken Noodle). Shown with their respective cans. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | Scene in the crew's mess, circa Autumn 1941. Note crewmen's attire, tattoo on the man seated second from left, soup bowls, galvanized pitcher and details of mess tables. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Santa Anna declining a hasty plate of soup at Cerro Gordo. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Distinguished military operations with a hasty bowl of soup. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Noise extracted without pain : waiter (to single gentleman): excuse me, sir, but that lady and gentleman wish me to recommend to you one of those new Maxim soup silencers. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Gertie. Gertie with woman outside Kids' restaurant, women being seated, woman eating soup while Gertie holds up waiters at gunpoint, and women leaving restaurant with food. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Five children having soup in court of Aksilo Garibaldi, Palermo, Italy. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mrs. Earl Warren (left), wife of the Governor ... of California, samples the soup to be served at a family dinner in the Executive Mansion at Sacramento ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fall in for soup - company mess. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mrs. Lon Allen stirring the soup in her home near Iron River, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Eye" by Julio Ferro Commentary: "Taken from an italian soup opera." | "Pumpkin 3" by M.Jander Commentary: "Even more for soup." |
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Ludwig Van Beethoven | Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | However, Bruno instantly put a large spoonful of soup into its mouth, and the poor little thing coughed violently for some time |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | A quality, I might add, that it shares with this soup." |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The bishop said the blessing, and then served the soup himself, according to his usual custom |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Got to have soup or milk |
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Health | These foods include soup, Jell-O®, and ice cream. (references) | |
Water, juice, soft drinks, broth, ice cream, soup, popsicles, and gelatin are all considered fluids. (references) | ||
Even if you do not want to eat solid foods, try to drink beverages during the day. Juice, soup, and other fluids like these can give you important calories and nutrients. (references) | ||
Economic History | Poland | U.S. tripe is imported for processing and production of the traditional Polish soup called "Flaki". (references) |
Netherlands | Examples of convenience items in demand include frozen fish soup, snack/finger foods, fish pate and marinated seafood. (references) | |
Trade | India | Fertilizers, mining equipment, wood products, jewelry, camera components, paper and paperboard, ferrous waste and scrap, computers, office machines and spares, textile machinery and spare parts, hand tools, soft drinks, cling peaches, vegetable juice and canned soup would also benefit. (references) |
Travel | Philippines | Business is not usually discussed until after establishing a convivial tone, usually after soup. (references) |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation. |
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| "Soup" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Soup" is used about 1,349 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 1,349 | 5,896 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Campbell Soup Co. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "soup": be in the soup ♦ bean soup ♦ beetroot soup ♦ bird's nest soup ♦ bread soup ♦ cabbage soup ♦ chicken soup ♦ clear soup ♦ copper soup ♦ cream soup ♦ duck soup ♦ eggdrop soup ♦ fat on soup ♦ fish soup ♦ fresh soup ♦ from soup to nuts ♦ green pea soup ♦ green turtle soup ♦ in the soup ♦ land in the soup ♦ lentil soup ♦ minestrone soup ♦ mock turtle soup ♦ onion soup ♦ oxtail soup ♦ pea soup ♦ potato soup ♦ quark soup ♦ soup and fish ♦ soup bowl ♦ soup course ♦ soup du jour ♦ soup kitchen ♦ soup ladle ♦ soup plate ♦ soup spoon ♦ soup ticket ♦ soup tureen ♦ soup up ♦ thick soup ♦ thin soup ♦ tomato soup ♦ tripe soup ♦ turtle soup ♦ vegetable soup ♦ washy soup ♦ watery soup ♦ wonton soup. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "soup": soup-bowlheads, soup-coloured, soup-dish, soup-kitchen, soup-kitchens, soup-ladle, soup-like, soup-making, soup-meat-cheese, soup-pan, soup-plate, soup-plates, soup-strainer, soup-to-nuts, soup-tureen. | |
Ending with "soup": cup-a-soup, primeval-soup. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bowling for soup | 2,399 | potato soup recipe | 168 |
cabbage soup diet | 2,097 | fairy soup | 164 |
soup | 1,732 | campbell recipe soup | 149 |
campbell soup | 1,277 | plantation soup | 140 |
soup recipe | 836 | french onion soup recipe | 131 |
car soup | 653 | egg drop soup | 122 |
soup diet | 494 | soup village | 106 |
chicken soup for the soul | 470 | hot sour soup | 104 |
bowling lyrics soup | 432 | broccoli cheese soup | 104 |
cabbage soup | 392 | miso soup recipe | 104 |
potato soup | 279 | cabbage soup recipe | 101 |
chicken soup | 269 | taco soup | 98 |
tortilla soup | 255 | black bean soup | 96 |
miso soup | 238 | asparagus soup | 91 |
french onion soup | 216 | vegetable soup | 89 |
chicken soup recipe | 187 | stone soup | 87 |
chicken soup for the teenage soul | 180 | soup nazi | 85 |
campbells soup recipe | 179 | parent soup | 83 |
tortilla soup recipe | 173 | hospital soup | 82 |
italian wedding soup | 169 | egg drop soup recipe | 82 |
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| Language | Translations for "soup"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | supë (bouillon, broth), fuqizoj (consolidate, fortify, potentiate, reinforce). (various references) | |
Arabic | حساء (broth, pottage), شوربة. (various references) | |
Bavarian | subbm. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | kóópis. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | супа (broth), нитроглицерин (nitroglycerin), мощност на мотор. (various references) | |
Catalan | sopa. (various references) | |
Chamorro | kaddo. (various references) | |
Chinese | 膷 (hashed beef), 羹湯 , 羹 , 湯 , 汤 (Broth). (various references) | |
Czech | polévka. (various references) | |
Danish | suppe. (various references) | |
Dutch | soep. (various references) | |
Esperanto | supo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | súpan. (various references) | |
Farsi | سوپ , اشامه , ابگوشت (Bouillon, Broth, Cullis, Gravy, Sop). (various references) | |
Finnish | keitto (boiling, cooking). (various references) | |
French | soupe, potage. (various references) | |
German | Suppe (bouillon, broth, pea souper, potage). (various references) | |
Greek | σούπα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרק (broth). (various references) | |
Hungarian | leves (gippo, juicy, jus). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sup, sop. (various references) | |
Irish | anraith (of soup). (various references) | |
Italian | minestra (soup course). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 汁 (broth, juice, sap). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいもの (Japanese style soup), ポタージュ (drink), しるもの, しる (broth, juice, sap, to be acquainted with, to feel, to know, to understand), つゆ (broth, dew, juice, rain during the rainy season, rainy season, sap), わりした, スープ . (various references) | |
Korean | 수프. (various references) | |
Lombard | zuppa. (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | zopp. (various references) | |
Manx | sooslagh (batter), anvroie (pot liquor). (various references) | |
Maya | kaa'. (various references) | |
Mohawk | kanòntara. (various references) | |
Norwegian | suppe. (various references) | |
Papiamen | sòpi. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oupsay.(various references) | |
Polish | zupa. (various references) | |
Portuguese | sopa (bouillon, pottage, sippet, sop). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | sopa. (various references) | |
Romanian | supã. (various references) | |
Russian | суп. (various references) | |
Scottish | sùgh (a wave, juice, sap), eanraich, eanbhruith. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | supa (broth), pojačati (amplify, boost, heighten, intensify, redouble, reinforce, turn up), čorba (bisk, bisque, broth, chowder). (various references) | |
Sicilian | suppa. (various references) | |
Spanish | sopa (pottage, sop). (various references) | |
Swahili | supu. (various references) | |
Swedish | soppa (juice, pottage). (various references) | |
Tagalog | sabáw, sópas. (various references) | |
Turkish | çorba (gippo, mess, potage, pottage). (various references) | |
Turkmen | зorba. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | юшка (pottage, slop), суп, густий туман (fog, smother), збільшувати швидкість, збільшувати потужність (soup up), пожвавлювати (brisk, enliven, exhilarate, point, reactivate, spirit). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xúp, canh. (various references) | |
Welsh | potes (broth, pottage), cawl (broth, hodge-podge). (various references) | |
Zulu | isobho. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | tu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | colius, iora, iosue, iura, iure, iuris, ius, ius iuris, iusque, numenius. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | suppa. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | hochepot, potage. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | soupe. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 25, Verse 34 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Iakwb de edwken tw hsau arton kai eyema fakou kai efagen kai epien kai anastaV wceto kai efaulisen hsau ta prwtotokia |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et sic accepto pane et lentis edulio comedit et bibit et abiit parvipendens quod primogenita vendidisset |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And so breed takun and the sowil of potage, ete, and dronk, and yede forth, settynge at nouyt that he hadde soold the riytis of his firste getyng. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Than Iacob gaue Esau brede and potage of redde ryse. And he ate and dronke and rose vp and went his waye. And so Esau regarded not his byrthrighte. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way: thus Esau despised his birth-right. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then Jacob gave him bread and soup; and he took food and drink and went away, caring little for his birthright. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 25, Verse 34 |
| Cebuano | Unya si Esau gihatagan ni Jacob sa tinapay ug sa linuto nga mga liso; ug siya mikaon ug miinum, ug mitindog ug milakaw. Niini gitamay ni Esau ang iyang pagkapanganay. |
| Croatian | Tada Jakov dade Ezavu kruha i èorbe od soèivice. Jeo je i pio, onda se digao i otišao. Tako Ezav pogazi svoje prvorodstvo. |
| Danish | Så gav Jakob Esau Brød og kogte Linser, og da han havde spist og drukket, stod han op og gik sin Vej. Således lod Esau hånt om sin Førstefødselsret. |
| Dutch | En Jakob gaf aan Ezau brood, en het linzenkooksel; en hij at en dronk, en hij stond op en ging heen; alzo verachtte Ezau de eerstgeboorte. |
| Finnish | Ja Jaakob antoi Eesaulle leipää ja hernekeittoa. Ja hän söi ja joi, nousi ja meni matkoihinsa. Niin halpana Eesau piti esikoisuutensa. |
| French | Alors Jacob donna à Ésaü du pain et du potage de lentilles. Il mangea et but, puis se leva et s`en alla. C`est ainsi qu`Ésaü méprisa le droit d`aînesse. |
| German | Da gab ihm Jakob Brot und das Linsengericht, und er aß und trank und stand auf und ging davon. Also verachtete Esau seine Erstgeburt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Setelah itu Yakub memberi kepadanya roti dan sebagian dari sayur kacang merah itu. Esau makan dan minum lalu pergi. Demikianlah Esau meremehkan haknya sebagai anak sulung. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Kemudian diberikan oleh Yakub kepada Esaf roti dan rebusan kacang merah itu. Setelah sudah makan minum maka bangunlah ia lalu pergi. Demikianlah dihinakan oleh Esaf akan hak kesulungannya. |
| Maori | Katahi ka hoatu e Hakopa he taro ki a Ehau me nga pi i kohuatia ra: na ka kai ia, ka inu, ka whakatika hoki, haere ana: na whakahaweatia ana e Ehau tona matamuatanga. |
| Norwegian | Og Jakob gav Esau brød og linsevelling, og han åt og drakk og stod op og gikk sin vei. Således ringeaktet Esau førstefødselsretten. |
| Rumanian | Atunci Iacov a dat lui Esau pkne wi ciorbq de linte. El a mkncat wi a bqut; apoi s`a sculat wi a plecat. Astfel wi -a nesocotit Esau dreptul de kntki nqscut. |
| Swedish | Men Jakob gav Esau bröd och linssoppa; och han åt och drack och stod sedan upp och gick sin väg. Så ringa aktade Esau sin förstfödslorätt. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "soup": soupcon, soupcons, souped, soupier, soupiest, souping, soups, soupspoon, soupspoons, soupy. (additional references) | |
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"Soup" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: boup, doup, Isou, Osep, osu, Qoub, scoup, Sepuh, Shoup, sloup, slup, soapa, somp, sopp, sorp, sorup, soue, soui, soum, soupa, soupe, souq, souw, soux, spoub, spup, stouph, stup, supu, supup, swup, toup, youp, zoop. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "soup" (pronounced suw"p) |
| 2 | -uw" p | coop, coupe, croup, droop, drupe, dupe, Goop, group, hoop, intergroup, loop, Loup, Loupe, poop, recoup, regroup, scoop, sloop, snoop, stoop, stoup, swoop, troop, troupe, whoop. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: opus. | |
| Words within the letters "o-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: ops, pus, sop, sou, sup, upo, ups. | |
-2 letters: op, os, so, up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: coups, loups, ouphs, pious, poufs, pours, pouts, roups, soups, soupy, spout, stoup, updos. | |
+2 letters: corpus, coupes, coypus, croups, groups, jupons, loupes, lupous, opiums, opuses, ouphes, parous, pilous, poilus, porous, poseur, possum, pouffs, poults, pounds, poyous, pseudo, puntos, putons, sapour, souped, spouse, spouts, sprout, stoups, stupor, tophus, tossup, unstop, upbows, upmost, uprose, upshot, upsoar, uptoss, yupons. | |
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