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

This soup combines those same cozy flavors with avgolemono, the classic Greek lemon and chicken soup. —Hailee Catalano, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Jan. 2026

This homemade chicken soup with lemon comes together quickly and easily thanks to rotisserie chicken. —Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 21 Jan. 2026

Her chicken soup was the color of sunlight, her gefilte fish was as delicate as a French quenelle, her latkes were evenly browned. —Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026

Compared to chicken soup, tomato soup trails on the protein scale, Sheth said. —Perri Ormont Blumberg, FOXNews.com, 17 Jan. 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