chicken noodle soup
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- noun
- /ˈtʃɪkɪn ˈnuːdəl suːp/
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sopa de fideos con pollo
- Just before I read this, I was putting together some chicken noodle soup and banana bread for a friend having surgery today.
- homemade chicken noodle soup
- bowl of chicken noodle soup
- eating chicken noodle soup
Wow, very good chicken noodle soup.
- Wow, very good chicken noodle soup.
Examples
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I'm having chicken noodle soup with Alma!
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I had chicken noodle soup.
Fiction book (1999) -
How about some chicken noodle soup?
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Do you like chicken noodle soup?
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So I just made him some homemade chicken noodle soup.
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OK, but I'm going to have my chicken noodle soup and my sandwich.
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Annie is eating a bowl of chicken noodle soup and a pimento cheese sandwich she bought that afternoon when Web took her to the Superstore.
Fiction book (2002) -
Chicken noodle soup never tasted so good in all my life, with nice big chunks of chicken, creamy noodles, and smooth, warm juice.
Fiction book (2002) -
In ghostlike lower Manhattan, Nancy Yates picked up canned chicken noodle soup at a bodega that was lit by flashlight and candlelight on Wednesday morning.
Blog text (2) -
I love to eat chicken noodle soup on cold winter days.
Synonyms
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A hot dish of meat, fish, or vegetables cooked in water
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A hot soup made with chicken and vegetables that people eat for comfort when sick
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Morphology
The meaning 'a soup made with chicken and noodles' is directly and literally composed from the known nouns 'chicken' + 'noodle' + 'soup', so a learner who knows the constituent words can infer the item. The compound follows a common noun-noun composition pattern found across languages, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Chicken noodle soup comes from simple home cooking where families used warm broth with chicken and noodles to look after sick people. Because mothers often gave this warm, easy-to-eat dish for colds, it became known as a 'comfort food' that seems to help when you are ill.