- thick soup made by boiling meat or fish and vegetables in water
- chicken broth
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBroth is used after these nouns:- beef
- chicken
- meat
- …
Word OriginOld English, of Germanic origin; related to brew.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See broth in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarytoo many cooks spoil the broth
- (saying) if too many people are involved in doing something, it will not be done well
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