SOUP

[noun] - liquid food, usually made by cooking vegetables and sometimes also meat or fish in watervegetable/chicken/oxtail/fish/tomato soup [U]hot/cold soup [U]clear/thick soup [U]home-made soup [U](UK and ANZ) packet/(US) instant soup [U](UK and ANZ) tinned/(US) canned soup [U]The steaming hot soup was very comforting after our long walk through the snow. [U]Would you like some soup/a bowl of soup? [U]There were three different soups on the menu that evening - tomato, chicken and lentil - but Rachel didn't like any of them. [C](figurative) Many scientists think that life began from molecules synthesized within a primordial soup (= liquid substance that existed on the Earth before there were any plants, animals or humans). [U](informal slightly dated) If you are in the soup, you are in an unpleasant or difficult situation.A soup kitchen is a place where free soup or other food is given to people with no money or no homes.A soup spoon is a large spoon, often rounded, used for eating soup.See picture: Dining