rice soup
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- noun
- /raɪs suːp/
:
sopa de arroz
- For lunch, I enjoyed a steaming bowl of rice soup packed with fresh vegetables.
- wild rice soup
Examples
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The rice soup soothed as it meandered through one's system, happily carrying away with it all impurities.
Fiction book (1993) -
She brought him warm water, and in the courtyard, he washed away the grime of the journey; then in the main room, he ate a bowl of hot rice soup and lay down to sleep.
Fiction book (1992) -
I want the turkey rice soup.
Fiction book (1990) -
The woman entered with the pot of rice soup.
Fiction book (1992) -
Suppose you are cooking a bean and rice soup.
Blog text (27) -
There I ordered wild rice soup and walleye with wild rice on the side.
Academic text (1998) -
The wild rice soup is very good, although I don't see any big difference in flavor.
Academic text (1998) -
At night, she made a supper of rice soup and kimchi and sat eating with the old man and the boy.
Fiction book (1992) -
Fei Lo thought about cold chicken and jook, thick rice soup, hot and cleansing.
Fiction book (1993) -
Besides the salad, we will have chicken rice soup (we had chicken noodle last week), cold cuts, and toast with Diet Mazola.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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A hot dish of meat, fish, or vegetables cooked in water
How Filling
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a soup made with rice' is directly compositional from 'rice' + 'soup' and follows a common noun + noun compounding pattern; a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer the dish. This construction is cross-linguistically common (many languages form dish names by combining the main ingredient with the word for soup), so the phrase is transparent.
Etymology
The noun rice soup comes from the simple dish of cooking rice in water until it becomes soft and turns into a thin soup, a food often given to sick people because it is easy to eat. That's why rice soup today means a gentle, 'light meal' or 'comfort food'.