chicken soup

noun

plural chicken soups

: a soup that has chicken broth as its base

Perhaps the most commonly served food of Passover is chicken soup with matzo balls …

—Frances Jaques

At the same time, from the Americas to Asia, from Eastern Europe to the Levant and Africa, chicken soups have the qualities and tastes that make every culture deliciously unique.

—Leslie Brenner

You doubt the healing power of chicken soup? Well, try to find a culture that doesn't make chicken soup at the drip of a nose.

—Kathleen Purvis

often, specifically : chicken noodle soup

The best chicken soup in the world was made by my maternal grandmother. On icy winter Saturdays … my reward was chicken noodle soup for lunch.

—Judy Schultz

This is a good season for homemade chicken soup. … If I were you, I'd add the chicken pieces before the noodles.

—Mary Keith

Examples of chicken soup in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Swap noodles for potato gnocchi for the most comforting chicken soup recipe. —Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 21 May 2026

My pits smelled like Campbell’s chicken soup. —Laura Bradley, Vanity Fair, 18 May 2026

The cooking is no-nonsense, from tortang talong, whole eggplant sealed in an omelet beneath a merry wreckage of pork, to lush tinola, chicken soup streaked with ginger. —Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026

Soup Turmeric can be added to a range of savory soups and stews for extra flavor, including lentil, butternut squash, bone broth, or chicken soups. —Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 30 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1733, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for chicken soup

• intergroup
• intragroup
• multigroup
• semigroup
• serogroup
• supergroup
• coop
• coupe
• croup
• droop
• drupe
• dupe