minestrone

[ min-uh-stroh-nee; Italian mee-ne-straw-ne ]

nounItalian Cooking.
  1. a thick vegetable soup, often containing herbs, beans, bits of pasta, etc., and served with Parmesan cheese.

Origin of minestrone

1
1890–95; <Italian, equivalent to minestr(a) kind of soup (literally, something served; see minister) + -one augmentative suffix

Words Nearby minestrone

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How to use minestrone in a sentence

  • He eats very little—two plates of soup (preferably minestrone), a piece of bread and a glass of chianti do him nicely for dinner.

  • minestrone is a favourite dish in Lombardy when vegetables are plentiful.

  • How good Moretti's minestrone tastes to the unsophisticated tongue.

    Shandygaff | Christopher Morley

British Dictionary definitions for minestrone

minestrone

/ (ˌmɪnɪˈstrəʊnɪ) /


noun
  1. a soup made from a variety of vegetables and pasta

Origin of minestrone

1
from Italian, from minestrare to serve

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