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summer soup

summer soup noun: a soup suitable for serving chilled instead of hot as most soups are.

Noun

summer soup (countable and uncountable, plural summer soups)

  1. A soup suitable for serving chilled instead of hot as most soups are.
    • For many people, gazpacho is the first and last summer soup that comes to mind.
  2. A traditional Finnish soup of vegetables cooked in milk.

Forms of summer soup

pluralsummer soups

Origin of summer soup

So named for being suitable to serve cold in the heat of summer. In the Finnish sense, Calque of Finnish kesäkeitto.

Questions about summer soup

What does summer soup mean?
Summer soup means a soup suitable for serving chilled instead of hot as most soups are.
What part of speech is summer soup?
Summer soup is a noun.
What is the plural of summer soup?
The plural of summer soup is summer soups.

Words near summer soup in the dictionary

  1. summer snowflakes
  2. summer soldier
  3. summer soldiers
  4. summer solstice
  5. summer solstices
  6. summer soup
  7. summer soups
  8. summer squash
  9. summer squashes
  10. summer stock
  11. summer sunstead

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