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Meaning of soupspoonful | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The amount that may be held by a soupspoon.

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Examples

“Add a soupspoonful of olive oil.”
“Two or three soupspoonsful of this solution in a quart of hot water may be used as an injection, morning and evening, to correct the fœtidity of leucorrhœic discharges which accompany some cases of endometritis, polypus, fibrous bodies, ulceration of the cervix uteri, or even simple vaginitis.”
“All he cured rapidly by the admistration^([sic]) of a solution of potassic iodide in the proportion of 2.5:100.0; of this three soupspoonsful, three times a day.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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