/səʊp/

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Meaning

The thing you use with water to wash your body or clothes; it makes bubbles and cleans away dirt.

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Word origin

From Old English sape, a word the Romans borrowed from the Germanic peoples as sapo.

Origin
Old English
Root
sape

Examples

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"Soap" is usually uncountable, so it takes no a and no plural.

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We use no or any with soap, not a.

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Here "this soap" means this kind or this bar of soap.

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This word is taught in chapter 30, lesson 8: soap, tend, locker and 7 more words.