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BROTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("broth" is a kind of...):
soup (liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "broth"):
barley water (broth used to feed infants)
bouillon (a clear seasoned broth)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
Example:
she made gravy with a base of beef stock
Synonyms:
broth; stock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("broth" is a kind of...):
soup (liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "broth"):
liquor; pot likker; pot liquor (the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked)
beef broth; beef stock (a stock made with beef)
chicken broth; chicken stock (a stock made with chicken)
stock cube (a cube of dehydrated stock)
Context examples:
Oh, what an evening, when I sat down by my fire to a basin of mutton broth, dimpled all over with fat, and thought I was going the way of my predecessor, and should succeed to his dismal story as well as to his chambers, and had half a mind to rush express to Dover and reveal all!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“I do but know that whether the broth be ready or no, I am about to dip this into it.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why, said the cock, I was just now saying that we should have fine weather for our washing-day, and yet my mistress and the cook don’t thank me for my pains, but threaten to cut off my head tomorrow, and make broth of me for the guests that are coming on Sunday!
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
These interruptions were of the more ridiculous to me, because she was giving me broth out of a table-spoon at the time (having firmly persuaded herself that I was actually starving, and must receive nourishment at first in very small quantities), and, while my mouth was yet open to receive the spoon, she would put it back into the basin, cry Janet!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Do you keep your spoon in your own broth. I rede you to go on your way, lest worse befall you. This little wench has come with me and with me she shall bide.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The bean said: I too have escaped with a whole skin, but if the old woman had got me into the pan, I should have been made into broth without any mercy, like my comrades.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The sausage had only to watch the pot to see that the food was properly cooked, and when it was near dinner-time, he just threw himself into the broth, or rolled in and out among the vegetables three or four times, and there they were, buttered, and salted, and ready to be served.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Then she drank her cup of broth and when she was fully satisfied, she once more said: “What shall I do? Shall I cut first, or shall I sleep first? I will sleep first.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
