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chard soup

chard soup

3.9
A soup made with chard and other vegetables
  • noun
translation icon : sopa de acelga
  • The restaurant's special today is a creamy chard soup served with fresh bread.

Examples

  • My grandmother always makes chard soup during the winter to warm us up.

  • If you have leftover chard, you can make a simple and healthy chard soup.

  • I love chard soup!

  • Have you tried chard soup before?

  • If you have leftover chard, you can make a simple and healthy chard soup.

  • My grandmother always makes chard soup during the winter to warm us up.

  • The restaurant's special today is a creamy chard soup served with fresh bread.

Synonyms

vegetable soup
vschard soup
5 1.0

A hot dish of vegetables like carrots and potatoes cooked in a tasty liquid

focuses on one leafy green as the main ingredient rather than many plant ingredients

How Thick

stew
110 1.0
chard soup
3.9
broth
76 1.0

Surface Forms

chard soup singular
chard soups plural

Morphology

chard + soup

The meaning 'a soup made with chard' is directly and transparently derived from combining the ingredient 'chard' with the dish word 'soup' — a straightforward ingredient + food compound. This compositional naming pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Chard soup comes from simple home cooking where the leafy vegetable chard is cooked with water and other vegetables to make a warm, filling dish. So it means 'a soup made with chard'.