soy sauce

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   thin sauce made of fermented soy beans

   Synonymssoy

   Broadercondiment

Questions about soy sauce

What does soy sauce mean?

soy sauce means "thin sauce made of fermented soy beans".

What is another word for soy sauce?

Close synonyms include soy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is soy sauce a common word?

soy sauce is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.