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# tureen

«tureen» in Mova's school dictionary: **A large deep bowl with a lid, from which soup is served…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a tureen, tureens)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A large deep bowl with a lid, from which soup is served at the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tureen/#m1)

2) A similar dish for serving vegetables or sauce. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tureen/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland the Mock Turtle sings «Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, / Waiting in a hot tureen!» – a funny song because mock turtle soup was a real Victorian dish. In grand houses and old stories, the soup tureen is carried in by a servant at a feast. Phrases: «a soup tureen».

### examples

- The waiter carried a steaming tureen of soup to the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tureen/#x1)
- «Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, waiting in a hot tureen!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tureen/#x2)
- Gran's best china tureen is only used at Christmas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tureen/#x3)
- Lift the lid of the tureen carefully – it's hot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tureen/#x4)
- The giant poured soup from the tureen into his bowl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tureen/#x5)
- The tureen was painted with blue flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tureen/#x6)
- You notice that soup-tureen in the middle of the table? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tureen/#x7)

### note

Countable. Said «tyoo-REEN» or «tuh-REEN». Not the same as «terrine» (a dish of pressed food), though they come from the same French word.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tureen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tureen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.