{
    "term": "soup",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a liquid food made by boiling meat, vegetables, etc. in water, often eaten as the first course of a meal",
            "labels": "(British English)(North American English)(British English)(North American English)",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a bowl/cup of soup"
                },
                {
                    "text": "chicken/vegetable/tomato soup"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a soup spoon/bowl/plate"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a tin/packet of soup"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a can/package of soup"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He ladled out three bowls of soup."
                },
                {
                    "text": "tinned/packet soups"
                },
                {
                    "text": "canned/packaged soups"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't slurp your soup!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Warhol's paintings of Campbell's soup cans"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had a cold cucumber soup as a starter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "hearty vegetable soup"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Chinese delicacy of shark fin soup"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the emergence of life from the primordial soup on the earth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was too sick to eat my soup."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Food"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["creamy", "hearty", "thick"],
                "… of soup": ["bowl", "cup", "mug"],
                "verb + soup": ["cook", "make", "prepare"],
                "soup + noun": ["bowl", "plate", "pot"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "from beginning to end",
            "labels": "(North American English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She told me the whole story from soup to nuts."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "in trouble",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We're all in the soup now."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/suːp/",
                "audio": "so/soup/soup__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/suːp/",
                "audio": "so/soup/soup__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French soupe ‘sop, broth (poured on slices of bread)’, from late Latin suppa, of Germanic origin."
}