| soccer |
Soccer is a game played by two teams of eleven players each. You get points by moving a ball down a field and getting it into a goal. In soccer, you can kick or hit the ball with your feet and body, but you can't touch the ball with your hands or arms. Outside of the United States and Canada, soccer is usually called "football." |
| soccer ball |
A soccer ball is the round ball used in the game of soccer. |
| social studies |
Social studies is a subject you study in school. In social studies, you learn about how people live around the world and how they lived in the past. You also learn about history--the things people did in the past. Geography is a part of social studies too. In geography, you study land and climate because these things play an important part in how people live. |
| sock1 |
A sock is a covering for your foot made of cloth. People wear socks inside their shoes. |
| soda |
Soda is a drink made with sugar, flavor, and water that has bubbles. Another word for soda is "pop" or "soda pop." |
| sofa |
A sofa is a long comfortable seat with arms and a back. Another word for sofa is couch. |
| soft |
When something is soft, it is easy to bend or move. It is not hard. Mud is something soft, but a brick is something hard. [3 definitions] |
| soil1 |
Soil is dirt. The top layer of the earth's surface is soil.We usually use the word soil when we are talking about growing things like vegetables, flowers, or other plants. |
| solar |
We use the word solar to describe something that comes from or has to do with the sun. Solar power, for example, is power that is made from the rays of the sun that travel to the Earth. |
| solar system |
When we talk about the solar system, we are usually talking about the sun, the earth, the moon, and all the other things in space that travel around the sun. Our solar system has eight planets and many moons. The sun is just one star, though. Other stars in space have solar systems too. They also have planets and moons and other things that travel around them. |
| soldier |
A soldier is someone in the army. Often, when we say soldier, we mean someone in the army who is not an officer. An officer gives commands, and other soldiers follow the commands. |
| sole2 |
A sole is the bottom of your foot or the bottom of your shoe. |
| solid |
When something is solid, it is hard or firm. Water is not solid, but when water becomes ice, it becomes solid. When something is solid, you can measure how long, wide, and high it is. [3 definitions] |
| Solomon Islands |
The Solomon Islands is a country made up of a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. Most of the land on the islands is covered by rainforests. Many beautiful tropical flowers grow in the Solomon Islands. A lot of wood from the forests is sold to other countries. |
| solve |
When you solve something, you find an answer to it or fix it. |
| Somalia |
Somalia is a country in Africa. It lies along the coast of the Indian Ocean. Some of its neighbors are Ethiopia and Kenya. Somalia is a hot country with many flat areas and some hills and low mountains. Raising animals for meat is one way that many people make a living in Somalia. Farming and fishing are important too. |
| some |
If you say you have some pencils, we understand that you have more than one pencil, but we don't know exactly how many. We also understand that the number of pencils is not really important. If you say you need some paper, we don't know exactly how much you need, but we understand that you need an amount of it. [3 definitions] |
| somebody |
When we say somebody, we mean some person. We use somebody when we don't know or are not telling who this person is. |
| someday |
When we say we will do a thing someday, we mean we will do it in the future but we don't know exactly when. |
| somehow |
Let's say your cat was gone for many days but it finally got home somehow. This means that the cat got home in a way that you don't know or is not clear to anyone. |
| someone |
When we say someone, we mean some person. We use someone when we don't know who a person is or it is not really important who the person is at this moment. |