Chowder Definition

choudər
noun
A thick soup made variously, but usually containing onions, potatoes, and salt pork, sometimes corn, tomatoes, or other vegetables, and often, specif., clams or fish and milk.
Webster's New World
A soup similar to this seafood dish.
Corn chowder.
American Heritage

A seller of fish.

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Other Word Forms of Chowder

Noun

Singular:
chowder
Plural:
chowders

Origin of Chowder

  • Probably from French chaudière (“pot”), from chaud (“hot”) (also related to the Latin caldaria and English cauldron). Possibly from Old English jowter (“fish monger”).

    From Wiktionary

  • French chaudière stew pot from Old French from Late Latin caldāria cauldron

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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