Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A beet soup served hot or cold, usually with sour cream.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, and often served with sour cream. Also, as used in the U.S., a sour cabbage soup, called in Russian
shchi .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
beetroot /beet soup that can beserved hot or cold, usually withsour cream .
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- noun a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He advocates taking the word "borscht" out of the equation altogether.
A Family Named Gold Tries to Add Cool to a Soup That's the Color Purple
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I understand if you don't like beets by themselves, but good borscht is one of the best soups around.
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I think of pletzlach as a close to ideal companion for mushroom barley soup, ukrainain borscht, or any other hearty whole meal type soup.
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Calling this beetroot soup a Polish classic is as inflammatory as an evening on the sliwowica – for a start, the name we generally know it by in this country, borscht, is Russian.
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Your beet soup or "borscht", as my husband's people call it, looks and sounds incredible.
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He will be very surprised that I made it, since I normally do not like the "borscht" that his mother makes.
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Exclude words that are still used to refer only to Russian things, such as borscht, ruble, or samovar.
The Volokh Conspiracy » English words borrowed from Russian:
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Mrs. Anders had insisted on pronouncing "borscht" the way it was spelled, sounding out the silent "t," and no matter how often he said it correctly, she refused to vary her pronunciation.
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Load your tray with traditional Polish foods, such as borscht or pierogis, pay the cashier and do a double-take when you realize how little you spent.
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Load your tray with traditional Polish foods, such as borscht or pierogis, pay the cashier and do a double-take when you realize how little you spent.
frindley commented on the word borscht
Nureyev had a favourite recipe.
October 1, 2008