wedding soup
wedding soup noun: an Italian-American soup consisting of green vegetables and meat in a chicken-based broth.
Noun
wedding soup (countable and uncountable, plural wedding soups)
- An Italian-American soup consisting of green vegetables and meat in a chicken-based broth.
- You have probably heard of wedding soup, an Italian-American favorite that gets its name not because it is served at weddings, but because it is a marriage of meat (in the form of tiny meatballs) and vegetables […]2013, Ellie Krieger, Weeknight Wonders: Delicious Healthy Dishes in 30 Minutes, →ISBN
- This was his second helping and he'd already eaten three slices of bread, a salad, and a cup of wedding soup.2014, Mary Campisi, A Family Affair: Fall, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- Italian wedding soup
Synonyms of wedding soup
Forms of wedding soup
| plural | wedding soups |
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Origin of wedding soup
A mistranslated calque of Italian minestra maritata (“married soup”), which refers to the “marriage” of the vegetables and the meat.
Questions about wedding soup
- What does wedding soup mean?
- Wedding soup means an Italian-American soup consisting of green vegetables and meat in a chicken-based broth.
- What part of speech is wedding soup?
- Wedding soup is a noun.
- What is the plural of wedding soup?
- The plural of wedding soup is wedding soups.
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