soup vs gumbo

soup and gumbo both are nouns.

soup is a verb but gumbo is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
soup	Yes	No	Yes	No
gumbo	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, gumbo is a hyponym of soup; that is, gumbo is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than soup:

soup: liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food
gumbo: a soup or stew thickened with okra pods

Other hyponyms of soup include soup du jour, alphabet soup, consomme, bisque, borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch, broth, broth, stock, chicken soup, cock-a-leekie, cocky-leeky, gazpacho, julienne, marmite, mock turtle soup, mulligatawny, oxtail soup, pea soup, pepper pot, Philadelphia pepper pot, minestrone, petite marmite, vegetable soup, potage, pottage, green turtle soup, turtle soup, eggdrop soup, chowder, won ton, wonton, wonton soup, split-pea soup, green pea soup, potage St. Germain, lentil soup, Scotch broth, vichyssoise, carrot soup, rice soup, cream of mushroom soup, cauliflower soup, blueberry soup, chard soup.

soup (noun)	gumbo (noun)
liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food	a soup or stew thickened with okra pods
an unfortunate situation	long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup	tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
	any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

soup (verb)	gumbo (verb)
dope (a racehorse)

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