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Definition of chowder noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

chowder

noun
 
/ˈtʃaʊdə(r)/
 
/ˈtʃaʊdər/
[uncountable]
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  1. a thick soup made with fish and vegetables
    • clam chowder
    see also bisque
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryChowder is used after these nouns:
    • seafood
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    Word Originmid 18th cent.: perhaps from French chaudière ‘stew pot’, related to Old Northern French caudron, based on Latin caldarium, calidarium ‘cooking-pot’, from calidus ‘hot’.
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