soup kitchen

noun

1. a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to people experiencing food insecurity.
2. Military Slang. (in World War I) a mobile kitchen.

soup kitchen

noun

1. a place or mobile stall where food and drink, esp soup, is served to destitute people
2. military a mobile kitchen

Word History and Origins

Origin of soup kitchen¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

Instead of donating to soup kitchens or charities that save kids from malaria today, you may donate to researchers who are figuring out how to ensure that tomorrow’s AI will be aligned with human values.

From Vox

Whereas soup kitchens and food banks also often involve a time commitment, “we believe that bringing food to people and meeting them where they are at is a way to give them their time back,” said the spokesperson.

From Eater

In its earlier days, Feed the City took the form of a traditional soup kitchen, where volunteers served hot meals.

From Eater

If each person donated one carrot, one potato, one parsnip, one turnip, and one tomato once a month, there would be more than enough vegetables to give to, say, a soup kitchen.

From Eater

Volunteers, many elderly, were too afraid to work in the soup kitchens they usually ran.

From Time

Bach in the Subways is a soup kitchen for a world starving for classical music.

From The Daily Beast

While the soup kitchen was in all accounts a success, there was a major catch.

From The Daily Beast

Michael Daly talks to the soup kitchen's crowd about why the name Francis means so much to them.

From The Daily Beast

Examples can include working at a 7-Eleven, doing filing work at a non-profit, and volunteering at a soup kitchen.

From The Daily Beast

They would meet every day at Rikers, the local soup kitchen, and lunch on the 25-cent chicken pot pie.

From The Daily Beast

He helped to cut down trees and saw them into logs, to cook the food at the soup kitchen.

From Project Gutenberg

You will like to know that I have a soup-kitchen at the station here, and I am up to my neck in soup.

From Project Gutenberg

I don't quite know who would take my place at the soup-kitchen if I were to leave.

From Project Gutenberg

On Monday, the 25th, I went back to work at Adinkerke station, to which place our soup-kitchen has been moved.

From Project Gutenberg

She spoke of the heroism of the troops, and stated that since September last she had been running a soup-kitchen for the wounded.

From Project Gutenberg