soup
soup [soup soups souped souping] noun, verb BrE [suːp] NAmE [suːp]
noun  uncountable, countable
a liquid food made by boiling meat, vegetables, etc. in water, often eaten as the first course of a meal
•a bowl of soup
•chicken soup
• (BrE)tinned/packet soups
• (NAmE)canned/packaged soups
•a soup spoon/plate
Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French soupe ‘sop, broth (poured on slices of bread)’, from late Latin suppa, of Germanic origin.
Example Bank:
•Don't slurp your soup!
•He ladled out three bowls of soup.
•Warhol's paintings of Campbell's soup cans
•We had a cold cucumber soup as a starter.
•an alphabet soup of other government agencies= used to say that their names consist of complicated abbreviations
•hearty vegetable soup
•the Chinese delicacy of shark fin soup
•the emergence of life from the primordial soup on the Earth
Idioms: ↑from soup to nuts ▪ ↑in the soup
Derived: ↑soup something up
verb
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French soupe ‘sop, broth (poured on slices of bread)’, from late Latin suppa, of Germanic origin.
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