soup kitchen

noun

1. a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to people experiencing food insecurity.

2. Military Slang.,  (in World War I) a mobile kitchen.

soup kitchen

noun

1. a place or mobile stall where food and drink, esp soup, is served to destitute people

2. military a mobile kitchen

Word History and Origins

Origin of soup kitchen¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

You can still volunteer at a local soup kitchen, nursing home, or hospital.

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Religious groups terrified to run their soup kitchens.

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The majority of the city's soup kitchens have been forced shut for lack of food, according to the local resistance committees.

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Back in el-Fasher we hear appeals for help from the women clustered at the soup kitchen - any kind of help.

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Even going to the soup kitchen at her school was "like an adventure", she said.

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