broth
Americannoun
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broths
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thin soup of concentrated meat or fish stock.
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water that has been boiled with meat, fish, vegetables, or barley.
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Bacteriology. a liquid medium containing nutrients suitable for culturing microorganisms.
idioms
noun
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a soup made by boiling meat, fish, vegetables, etc, in water
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another name for stock
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Etymology
Origin of broth
before 1000; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Old Norse broth, Old High German brod; akin to brew
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The noodles are springy and dense, meaning they hold their shape nicely when soaked in broth and have a nice chew.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
The beef noodle soup, which accounts for about 80% of orders, contains noodles, beef, one ladle of original stock and one ladle of fresh broth to dilute the stock’s intense flavor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Kaweenuntawong’s grandfather created the family’s foundational broth for a simple reason: consistency of taste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
The broth is frozen for four days and thawed on the fifth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
My mother used to make me atole de grano when I was a girl, the dense corn kernels buried in the anicillo broth.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
One trigger people tend to forget: red-meat stock used in a lot of sauces and broths in restaurants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The noma "touch" owes much to fermentation -- which can render even pine edible -- as well as to its sophisticated broths.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2025
Nowadays, any pseudoscientific tinctures or broths are about as good as you can expect from the U.S. health care system.
From Salon ● May 6, 2025
Diners in Haidilao use their own personal hotpot equipment to cook their food, and broths are not re-used again for other customers.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025
Mama was always cooking up nourishing broths and porridges for forgotten old men and pale young mothers—on days, that is, when she herself was strong enough to stand at the stove.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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