soap
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
soap/səʊp/
▶noun
- 1 a substance used with water for washing and cleaning, made of a compound of natural oils or fats with sodium hydroxide or another strong alkali, and typically perfumed.
- 2 informal a soap opera.
– derivatives
soapily adverb,
soapiness noun,
soapless adjective,
soapy adjective (soapier, soapiest).
soapily adverb,
soapiness noun,
soapless adjective,
soapy adjective (soapier, soapiest).
– origin OE sāpe, of W. Gmc origin.
'soap' also found in these Oxford entries:
cake
- carbolic
- coconut butter
- dish
- glycerol
- lather
- Lysol
- phosphoric acid
- potassium hydroxide
- rinse
- saddle soap
- salt
- saponaceous
- saponify
- saponin
- smectic
- smegma
- soap opera
- soapwort
- sodium carbonate
- soft soap
- stearic acid
- suds
- sudser
- sugar soap
- superfatted
- tablet
- tallow
- telenovela
- toilet bag
- toiletries
- wash
- whale oil
