pea soup
pea soup noun: a thick soup made with dried peas (often split peas) and various other ingredients.
Noun
pea soup (countable and uncountable, plural pea soups)
- A thick soup made with dried peas (often split peas) and various other ingredients.
- A French or French Canadian person.
- Synonyms:
- pea-souper
- Thick fog.
- Synonyms:
- pea-souper, pea-soup fog
- A greyish green or dull chartreuse colour, like the colour of pea soup.
Adjective
pea soup (comparative more pea soup, superlative most pea soup)
- Of the color of pea soup (greyish green or dull chartreuse).
pea soup meaning in Sanskrit
pea soup in Sanskrit
- pea soup, the water in which different pulses have been boiled
- यूष yūṣá
Synonyms of pea soup
Forms of pea soup
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pea soups |
| alternative form | peasoup |
| alternative form (dated) | pea-soup |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more pea soup |
| superlative | most pea soup |
Origin of pea soup
From pea + soup. Doublet of pisupo.
Words formed from pea soup
- pea-souper
- pea-soup fog
- pea-soupy
- thick as pea soup
Questions about pea soup
- What does pea soup mean?
- Pea soup means a thick soup made with dried peas (often split peas) and various other ingredients.
- What is pea soup in Sanskrit?
- Pea soup in Sanskrit is यूष (yūṣá). See Pea soup meaning in Sanskrit.
- What part of speech is pea soup?
- Pea soup can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of pea soup?
- The plural of pea soup is pea soups.
Words near pea soup in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pea soup (page history and authors); यूष (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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