Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wedding soup

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.07 in modern English

Syllables: wed-ding -soup
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An Italian-American soup consisting of green vegetables and meat in a chicken-based broth.

American usage; Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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 […]"
"This was his second helping and he'd already eaten three slices of bread, a salad, and a cup of wedding soup."
"[The] shopper creates a version of wedding soup and incorporates beans into the mix to allow for extra protein."

Etymology

A mistranslated calque of Italian minestra maritata (“married soup”), which refers to the “marriage” of the vegetables and the meat.

Usage

Inflected Forms

wedding soups (plural)

Synonyms

Italian wedding soup

Questions

What does wedding soup mean?: An Italian-American soup consisting of green vegetables and meat in a chicken-based broth.
Where does wedding soup come from?: A mistranslated calque of Italian minestra maritata (“married soup”), which refers to the “marriage” of the vegetables and the meat.

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