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broth.

Water in which food (meat, vegetable, etc.) has been boiled.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/bɹɔθ/General-American/bɹɑθ/cot-caught-merger/bɹɒθ/Received-Pronunciation
  1. Water in which food (meat, vegetable, etc.) has been boiled.

    uncountable
  2. A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.

    countable
Where this word comes from

From Middle English broth, from Old English broþ (“broth”), from Proto-West Germanic *broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþą (“broth”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to seethe, roil, brew”). By surface analysis, brew + -th (abstract nominal suffix).

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