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{
"term": "soup",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a liquid food made by boiling meat, vegetables, etc. in water, often eaten as the first course of a meal",
"labels": "(British English)(North American English)(British English)(North American English)",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a bowl/cup of soup"
},
{
"text": "chicken/vegetable/tomato soup"
},
{
"text": "a soup spoon/bowl/plate"
},
{
"text": "a tin/packet of soup"
},
{
"text": "a can/package of soup"
},
{
"text": "He ladled out three bowls of soup."
},
{
"text": "tinned/packet soups"
},
{
"text": "canned/packaged soups"
},
{
"text": "Don't slurp your soup!"
},
{
"text": "Warhol's paintings of Campbell's soup cans"
},
{
"text": "We had a cold cucumber soup as a starter."
},
{
"text": "hearty vegetable soup"
},
{
"text": "the Chinese delicacy of shark fin soup"
},
{
"text": "the emergence of life from the primordial soup on the earth"
},
{
"text": "I was too sick to eat my soup."
}
],
"topics": ["Food"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["creamy", "hearty", "thick"],
"… of soup": ["bowl", "cup", "mug"],
"verb + soup": ["cook", "make", "prepare"],
"soup + noun": ["bowl", "plate", "pot"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "from beginning to end",
"labels": "(North American English, informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She told me the whole story from soup to nuts."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "in trouble",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We're all in the soup now."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/suːp/",
"audio": "so/soup/soup__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/suːp/",
"audio": "so/soup/soup__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French soupe ‘sop, broth (poured on slices of bread)’, from late Latin suppa, of Germanic origin."
}