wonton soup
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- noun
- /ˈwɑːnˌtɑːn suːp/
:
sopa de wonton
- Why we love it: Nothing beats a bowl of warm wonton soup at 3 a.m. on a freezing winter night.
Examples
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It's typical that she would offer Frank Walsh wonton soup.
Fiction book (1990) -
I don't love wonton soup that comes from a can
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My mother made this wonton soup for dinner.
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Uh, two with wonton soup.
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"No wonton soup," I told her.
Fiction book (1990) -
It was the one we had used when we shared our first bowl of wonton soup in the park.
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She located a Chinese restaurant that was open and brought him a container of wonton soup.
Fiction book (1990) -
We'd order wonton soup and crumpled duck and sit there for hours, talking.
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He pours from a half-pint bottle of vodka into his wonton soup container, smoking a cigar.
Fiction book (2001) -
My mother made this wonton soup for dinner.
Synonyms
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1.0
A thick mixture of things that looks like liquid
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A hot soup made with chicken and vegetables that people eat for comfort when sick
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4.3
A Vietnamese soup with hot broth, rice noodles, herbs, and beef or chicken
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1.0
A hot dish of vegetables like carrots and potatoes cooked in a tasty liquid
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A soup with pieces of chicken, noodles, and vegetables in hot chicken broth
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1.3
A hot dish of rice and vegetables cooked in water, often eaten as a small meal
A Chinese dumpling filled with meat or vegetables and served in clear soup
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Etymology
Wonton soup may come from the image of small wonton dumplings floating like 'little clouds' in a clear soup. One popular story says people compared the dumplings to 'little clouds', so the name now means a soup served with these dumplings.