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pho.

A Vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and optionally beef or chicken.

3 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/fəʊ/UK/fɜː/UK/fʌ/UK/foʊ/US
  1. A Vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and optionally beef or chicken.

    uncountable · usually
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Vietnamese phở.

intj/foʊ/US/fʌ/US
  1. Expressing dismissive contempt.

    archaic
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.