chowder
noun/ˈtʃaʊdə(r)/
/ˈtʃaʊdər/
[uncountable]- a thick soup made with fish and vegetables
- clam chowder
Oxford Collocations DictionaryChowder is used after these nouns:- seafood
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’.Want to learn more?
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