a clear, thin soup made by boiling meat, or sometimes cereals or vegetables, in water
Origin of broth
Middle English and OE; akin to Old High German brod: for Indo-European base see bread
A bowl of noodles and carrots in broth.
The definition of broth is a clear and thin soup made from parts of meat and/or vegetables boiled in water.
An example of broth is chicken stock.
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broth
noun
pl. broths,- The water in which meat, fish, or vegetables have been boiled; stock.
- A thin, clear soup based on stock, to which rice, barley, meat, or vegetables may be added.
- A liquid containing nutrients for culturing microorganisms: inoculated the broth with bacteria.
Origin of broth
Middle English from Old English; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(countable and uncountable, plural broths)
- (uncountable) Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled.
- (countable) A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.
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Origin
From Middle English broth, from Old English broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþą (“broth”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerew- (“to seethe, roil, brew”). Akin to Old English breowan (“to brew”).
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Sentence Examples
- On an islet in the lake stands a ruined "broth" or round tower.
- The clear broth held a tangy, rich flavor, like spiced butter.
- Evelyn poured clear, steaming broth into a bowl beside her plate.
- They use much pottage made of coal-wort, which they call kail, sometimes broth of decorticated barley.
- In one, Haffkine employs the toxins obtained by growing plague bacilli in broth for five or six weeks, and then heating the whole to 65° or 70° C. so as to destroy the bacilli.
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