soup spoon
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- noun
:
cuchara de sopa
- Slowly, several of the guests lower their soup spoons and push their bowls away.
- bowl with a soup spoon
- knives, forks, and soup spoons
- picked up the soup spoon
Examples
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Now she watched as he lifted his soup spoon and sipped it.
Fiction book (1997) -
and the soup spoon to the left of the fish knife,
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Then you use your soup spoon. Vivian
Fiction book (1990) -
If he raised his soup spoon to his lips, they raised their spoons.
Fiction book (1996) -
He picks up his soup spoon, turns it over, and uses it to scan what's going on around him.
Fiction book (1997) -
"He grabbed his soup spoon and lifted a spoonful of steaming chili to his lips.
Fiction book (1992) -
Wiggs must have heard her laugh, because he grinned approvingly in her direction and waved at her with his soup spoon.
Fiction book (1990) -
Hoot grunts something and sips loudly from his soup spoon, then picks out something from his soup he can't recognize and holds it up.
Fiction book (1994) -
She served the hot broth in a soup spoon to make it easier to eat.
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Each place setting included a soup spoon next to the dinner plate.
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Morphology
The meaning 'a spoon used for eating soup' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'soup' (the food) with 'spoon' (an eating utensil). This straightforward compound-noun formation is compositional and common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun soup spoon comes from the spoon's shape: the spoon has a larger, round bowl made to hold soup. That's why it means 'a spoon used for eating soup'.